How to Move Your Team Toward Async-First Communication

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Effective Communications: A simple framework for Product Managers — Product Leaders

The hyperactive hive mind workflow wants email to be a neutral carrier that supports flexible, unstructured, ongoing conversations of all types. The short-email movement pushes back on this commitment. It specifies email as something useful for short questions, short answers, and short updates, but demands that anything more complicated be handled

Cal Newport • A World Without Email

We need to shift some discussions to be asynchronous—not real-time—to remove the pressure that synchronous or in-person work can cause.

How Asynchronous Work Helps You Leverage Your Team’s Diversity

For many different knowledge work settings, deploying these short meetings, three to five times a week, can significantly reduce ad hoc email or instant message interaction throughout the day, as everyone synchronizes during the regular gathering.