Sanjay V Sharma

If you ask me, working remotely rocks. I’m currently writing from a small beach bar located on a remote island in southern Thailand. Looking up from my laptop, I see nothing but the endless ocean and its crystal clear blue waters. I’ll be enjoying this morning undisturbed and focused on my work because the rest of the team hasn’t even gotten up yet. Time zones work out really well for distributed teams. My colleague Thomas recently  talked to 11 thought leaders in project management  about the impact of remote work on a company; some scrum experts argued that distributed teams could work together effectively while others came out strongly against it. I understand the concerns; you can’t just open up the office doors and release everyone into the wild. It’s not guaranteed that you’ll end up with a thriving business. Marissa Mayer at Yahoo famously  axed remote work  in 2013 after feeling that some employees abused it. So how does a tech company get this working remote...

There is a multi-trillion dollar economy opening up to technology faster than ever. It has been driven by trends that have changed the nature of how entrepreneurs will be characterized going forward; specifically, industry executives will be the next wave of in-demand startup CEOs. In April of 2007, Apple changed everything with the launch of the iPhone. It is hard to imagine that it has only been 8 years since the release of the first truly pervasive smartphone, but there is no denying its impact has been world-changing. Beyond the creation of a new dimension of industry-driven, by location-based, services (and with it, a myriad of billion dollar companies), an equally significant phenomenon emerged.  By creating technology that was intuitive to the consumer masses, every person around the world started to embrace technology as more than just a work tool.  Lawyers, doctors, car mechanics and people from every sector of the economy not only had a tool for productivity, but a p...