How to Move Your Team Toward Async-First Communication

the meeting begins, the team sits down to start discussing the project. You are already prepared. You’ve already considered the main problems from several different angles, mapped out a number of possible solutions, and started thinking about the big-picture implications. You’ve even received feedback from some of your colleagues and incorporated i

Returning to a culture that allows more separation between specialized and administrative work is crucial to moving past the hyperactive hive mind and significantly improving productivity.

Finally, it’s important to remember that at the end of every meeting, with the exception of the daily check-ins, team members must stop and clarify what they’ve agreed to and what they will go back and communicate to their teams. This is called cascading communication and it is covered in detail in the Discipline 3 section. CHECKLIST FOR MEETINGS M

Hive Mind Driver #1: The Hidden Costs of Asynchrony As argued earlier, email helped solve a practical problem generated by the growing size of offices: the need for efficient asynchronous communication—that is, a fast way to send messages back and forth without requiring the sender and receiver to be communicating at the same time.