Here are some notes from our April 15, 2022 breakfast at Red Rock in Mountain View. Three topics we discussed were global teams, reshoring, and hiring technical talent for projects. This is not meant to be a detailed recap of the meeting, just high points with resources and tips you may find helpful.
Apr-15-2022 Breakfast Notes : Global Teams, Reshoring, Hiring
Reshoring: we talked about some opportunities
if “reshoring” becomes a significant trend
- Michael Keer on Current State of Global Supply Chains 2021
- Joel Kotkin Brain Belt (Bootstrapper Breakfast Blog from 2010)
- related: https://www.aei.org/articles/the-u-s-brain-belt/
Planning and Scheduling Meetings for Global Teams
- Beat the Clock: Global teams work 24 hours a day, 7 day a week to “beat the clock.” Here are some tips to increase their effectiveness.
- Lucid Meetings https://www.lucidmeetings.com/ argues there are 16 meeting types (See https://www.lucidmeetings.com/
meeting-types) - Lessons From Working With Teams Who Speak English as a Second Language
- Liberating Structures – composable modules to create meetings
- Lisa Solomon argues: “There are really only three kinds of meetings:
- Building understanding: enabled each participant share relevant information to build a common understanding for clarity.
- Shaping choices: explore potential options, choices that are concrete discrete possibilities that we can analyze and test.
- Making decisions: only possible after we have a common understanding and clear choices framed.
Hiring part time technical talent for project work
- Define the position / project outcomes
- Define who will take part in interview process and assess which aspects of capabilities sought
- Three largest sources for technical talent are arguably:
- Need to plan for a high failure rate / washout rate on potential contributors. Take small steps.
Related Blog Posts
- Lessons From Working With Teams Who Speak English as a Second Language
- Beat the Clock
- The Benefits of Collaborative Writing, Interviewing, and Improvisation
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