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# Two essentials for building distributed teams
- URL: https://www.howardgray.net/untitled-6/
- Published: 2024-09-03T16:08:00.000Z
- Updated: 2024-10-05T16:09:08.000Z
- Author: Howard Gray
- Tags: Entrepreneurial Endeavours, Future Of Work, Creative Business

Jeff Bezos once said to bet on things that won't change. Here's one: talent is everywhere. But opportunity? That's been another story... until now.

There’s a real shift happening in how teams come together:

- **Way back**: Outsourcing
- **Recent past:** Enforced remote work
- **Next**: Truly distributed teams

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What if you had…

- Business analyst in Istanbul
- UX designer in Kyiv
- Game developer in Curitiba
- Marketing lead in Mountain View
- Project Manager in Colombo
- Experience designer in Guatemala
- Product lead in New York

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All brought together in just a few weeks, and in sync with only 5-6 tools that cost less than a single co-working desk. Let’s not even start on the melting pot of perspectives, backgrounds, and cultures.

But how to do this well? Two key skills, I reckon - and they link humans and technology:

1. **Curation**: The human touch of finding, supporting, and enabling talented people
2. **Systems**: The digital groove of intuitive, efficient, and streamlined workflows

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I don’t see this as the same as ‘remote work’ or even distributed teams. It feels more… Borderless. And I can’t imagine going back.

  
What's your take? Have you been in - or built in - teams like this? What challenges and opportunities do you see in this new world of work?

P.S. That team listed above? It’s my current one…