Does Your C-suite Still Need to Live in the Same City?
A version of this article first appeared on Innovation Leader . The Future of Work is Now In November 2018, I gave a presentation at the Lean Startup Conference about the Future of Work . In the presentation, I made the claim that the Future of Work has already arrived because trends that are changing the way we work are already visible. One of the trends I discussed is how Technology is changing what’s possible in how companies are organized. Specifically, you are starting to see more and more companies that have forgone having a central office for their headquarters and instead work completely remotely. These future-ahead companies have fully embraced using video conferencing and tools like Slack to collaborate. In the presentation, I joked about how our grandchildren will be amused that their ancestors used to battle soul-crushing congestion five days a week to get to work and return home. What I didn’t realize at that time was that in less than two years we would be fac...