By: Mary Kamau on January 12, 2023
The covid19 pandemic was as brutal as it was merciless in forcing everyone across the globe to change. Life became unpredictable as people lived in fear and uncertainty, not having a clue of what to expect or do. If change management is leadership, then everyone was forcibly conscripted into leadership to manage the most unpredictable…
By: Travis Vaughn on January 12, 2023
My wife often tells me I should pick up more fiction. I agree with her, but for some reason I’ve had an aversion to such literature most of my adult life. Admittedly, I do occasionally pick up a novel by Cormac McCarthy, J.R. Tolkien, or J.K. Rowling, but the thought of doing more of that…
By: Jenny Dooley on January 12, 2023
I buy books. Lots of books! I bought How to Read a Book, by Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren, decades ago. I don’t recall having ever read it. I laughed at the realization of having packed, unpacked, and repacked a book I had never finished over the course of five international relocations. I…
By: Russell Chun on January 12, 2023
“Interessanterweise sind unsere beiden Autoren (Adler und Ahrens) Deutsche.” Translation: It is interesting to note that both our authors (Adler and Ahrens) are German. Part 1, Sönke Ahrens, How to take Smart Notes Grade: A Sönke Ahrens sparked my interest as many of his Smart Note taking points are “informed” as he says, by his…
By: Jenny Steinbrenner Hale on January 12, 2023
As I Begin One of my goals this semester is to reduce the amount of time I spend preparing my blogs, in order to sharpen my communication skills and create a more balanced life and work routine. I am pushing myself to form and hone my ideas more quickly and to edit less. I find…
By: Nicole Richardson on January 12, 2023
“I can’t wait to get back to normal” was a regularly heard phrase by the members of the church I served when the Covid Pandemic was in full swing. Although people were thankful for Zoom technology for worship, the heart felt sense that we were not the same community because we could not be together…
By: Elmarie Parker on January 12, 2023
Gustavo Razzetti, organizational culture consultant, author, and speaker, wrote “Remote Not Distant: Design a Company Culture That Will Help You Thrive in a Hybrid Workplace”[1] to encourage leaders to think differently about their organization’s culture post the wide-spread work-from-home experiences of the covid-19 pandemic. He provides a roadmap for executives so they and their teams…
By: Scott Dickie on January 12, 2023
The title of my blog is from some Lord of the Rings character, in one of the three movies, before one of the important battles. If I could figure out how to add a footnote on this blog page, I might be more compelled to communicate with a bit more accuracy and precision, which would…
By: Pam Lau on January 12, 2023
Writing was my refuge. I could slip in between every word and feel my body stretch itself without limits, rules or expectations. Especially as an imaginative, outspoken adolescent girl whose critical thinking skills were wildly untethered, my songs, poems, letters and stories sheltered me with their walls. The more than 300 journals in my garage…
By: Jonathan Lee on January 12, 2023
Gustavo Razzetti, the author of Remote Not Distant, is an author and a leading workplace thinker on changing and improving workplace cultures. He begins this book on how to rebuild a hybrid company culture by stating that workplaces are headed into a whole new era of cultures after covid era. He begins his book by…
By: Troy Rappold on January 12, 2023
In the 2022 book, “Remote, Not Distant,” Gustavo Razzetti outlines helpful principles for companies to consider as they navigate the “new normal” of remote work realities in the modern workplace. Razzetti’s premise is that the COVID pandemic forever changed the structure of work and we will not be returning to business as usual. Indeed, the…
By: Michael Simmons on January 12, 2023
In his book, Remote Not Distant: Designing a Company Culture That Will Help You Thrive in a Hybrid Work Place, author Gustavo Razzetti makes the case for shifting to hybrid work models, and he provides a roadmap for how to do so intentionally. He spends substantial time at the beginning of the book debunking myths…
By: Roy Gruber on January 12, 2023
Gustavo Razzetti, founder and CEO of Fearless Culture, author, and corporate consultant specializing in digital strategy, offers a way into the future after the global Covid pandemic. His business book, Remote, Not Distant, provides actionable steps toward a thriving institutional culture in the “new normal” in the post-pandemic world. Razzetti’s premise states that the book…
By: Tim Clark on January 12, 2023
On a bookshelf in my house sits a small wooden plaque with a quote from Thomas Jefferson “I cannot live without books”. This accurately reflects how I feel about reading, but it also serves as a passive justification to my wife for the unreasonable amount of money I’ve spent on books over the years. I…
By: Kristy Newport on January 12, 2023
I want my relationship with Jesus to look like the one Peter had. Like Peter, Jesus is foremost my Savior and Creator, but I believe He also is my coach. Camocho provides a resource for those who are interested in coaching and what to look for in a coach in his book Mining for Gold. …
By: Kayli Hillebrand on January 11, 2023
Gustavo Razzetti’s Remote Not Distant was, for me, a gift that I did not anticipate receiving simply based on the title. I was under the impression that Razzetti would be primarily focused on the practicalities of setting up environments to foster healthy remote and hybrid environments, but he went beyond that, diving into the importance…
By: Denise Johnson on January 11, 2023
Gustavo Razzetti’s Remote Not Distant: Design a Company Culture That Will Help You Thrive in a Hybrid Workplace,[1] takes a process orientated look at implementing intentional adaptation of the workplace culture. Razzetti, the CEO Fearless Culture a think tank that provides tools and ideas to success seeking global leaders.[2] The author incorporates the continuous growth…
By: Henry Gwani on January 11, 2023
Remote, Not Distant is a practical book on building a post-pandemic workplace culture that defines the mindset needed to thrive in today’s hybrid environment. It suggests six approaches to collaboration and five work models that unleash employee potential. Written by Gustavo Razetti, a consultant on corporate culture and author of four business books, Remote begins…
By: Esther Edwards on January 11, 2023
“As you shuffle through hundreds of notes and a dozen lines of thought, you start feeling that you’re…spiraling down into a black hole of confusion, paralyzed by what seems to be an increasingly complex and ultimately unmanageable task.”[1] [2] Ah, yes. The black hole. I am there. If I am honest, the black hole…
By: Andy Hale on January 11, 2023
“Should I mark this as a sick day,” the office administrator of the church I was serving asked me. “No, ma’am. I’m writing a Bible study at the coffee shop this morning. Afterward, I’m going to one of the church’s student’s basketball games this afternoon,” I replied. However, she insisted that I was not in…
