Matt Mullenweg
CEO, Automattic
Matt Mullenweg is a web developer and entrepreneur, as well as the co-founder of WordPress and CEO of Automattic Inc., the holding company of WordPress, Tumblr, Woocommerce, WordPress VIP, and Jetpack. Mullenweg was an early proponent of distributed teams, citing the access to top talent without geographical boundaries, and hosts a podcast on the topic, Distributed with Matt Mullenweg. For the majority of this career, Mullenweg has also been a visible champion for open source and accessible software for all.
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If you make work more about the output than the input, it becomes beautiful and powerful. You get more flexibility to get from A to B, and you can imagine ways to accomplish that goal that are beyond what I imagined before as a manager.
Flight Template Series: Optimizing Distributed Work
Advance Your Level of Autonomy: Level 3 to 4
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Description
Your company is currently at level 3 of autonomy, based on Matt’s framework . You are likely already innovating and truly benefitting from distributed work. To maintain this momentum, you must promote and practice asynchronous, autonomous work throughout all branches of your organization. This flight will help you evaluate the success of your current workflows and identify opportunities to advance your level of autonomy.
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Types of Insights
New practices and processes to implement to advance to the level 4 of Matt’s framework
Ideas to streamline and improve asynchronous workflows
Assessment of company culture and employee voice among your team