Hello and welcome to Radical Kander, a podcast from Panoply and Gretchen Rubin's Onward Project

about how not to hate the boss you have or be the boss you hate. I'm Russ Larraway, co-founder of

Candor Inc. and career-long operational manager across the Marines, Google, and Twitter. And I'm Kim Scott, co-founder of Candor, Inc., and career-long operational manager across the Marines, Google, and Twitter.

And I'm Kim Scott, co-founder of Candor, Inc., former executive at Google and Apple, and CEO Coach at Twitter, Dropbox, and a bunch of other great companies.

I'm also the author of Radical Cander.

This week, we're going to talk about a topic that so many of you listeners

have written in to ask us about what to do if you're working with remote teams. Yeah,

this is really common now these days for people to be working in all kinds of different locations,

whether that's different offices in the U.S. from New York to San Fran or even different countries.

People are working from home a lot more these days.

And if you're a boss with a remote team or if you have a boss who works in a different place,

it can feel a lot harder to build a strong relationship and develop a culture of feedback.

Long distance relationships are hard, no matter where

they happen. So today we're going to talk about working with remote teams, and along the way,

we're going to share three things. Some mistakes we've made, but also some successes. Sometimes

we do get it right. We'll answer a listener question about distributed teams, and we'll finish with some

specific tips for building stronger relationships with remote teams in this week's

candor checklist. All right, let's get into it. So as we've said before, it is so important

to build strong relationships with the people you work with. Absolutely. Yeah, it's critical.

In our view, it's critical. And working with a remote team or boss is difficult because you just,

you can't have as frequent contact. Yeah, and we talk a lot about how important it is to talk in person,

but if you're remote, that's obviously not possible. Yeah. Communication can just

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