Build a Winning Team

You are only as strong as the people around you.

You can control whom you interact with, so build a strong personal and professional coalition: hire people with positive energy and create a circle of friends from different backgrounds for engaging conversations.

... that's capable of executing in a remote setup:

• Hire doers: they will get stuff done even if they are working from a secluded island.
• Hire people you can trust. And trust the people you hire;
• Hire people who can write

If you want to shift a culture the most effective way to do it is to change who you hire. 

It’s far easier to hire for traits you need than to try to transform a person who doesn’t have them into someone that does. The more people in an organization that successfully demonstrate a trait, t...