Remote's CEO actively calls out teams and orders them to cancel meetings
Alanna Brown · How a $3 billion company leads fully remote teams · Jun 1, 2023 · at 10:06
Alanna Brown, VP of Growth at Remote, discusses the company's meeting culture and leadership practices for distributed teams.
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“Our goal is to actually avoid meetings as much as possible, and our CEO will even call us out if he thinks we're having too many meetings, and he asks us all the time to kill meetings.”
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