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How remote teams lose speed (and how to get it back)
reduce the drag inside your team before the new year.
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👋 Welcome back to All Things Remote: your weekly shortcut to building lean, efficient remote teams without the chaos.
In today’s send:
✅ Why remote teams slow down as they grow
✅ A simple 3-part framework to spot (and remove) operational drag
✅ The habit founders need to reset team momentum before January
But first, a quick question…
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No more fake meetings. Google now lets teams block real work time (and protects it).
How remote teams lose speed (and how to get it back)
One pattern shows up in almost every remote team I work with:
The team isn’t struggling because people aren’t working hard, they’re struggling because the work drags.
That drag can look like:
Projects quietly stalling
Decisions needing “one more check”
Work getting revised instead of being moved forward
Updates that don’t tell you anything
The good news?
Operational drag is predictable and fixable once you know where it comes from.
Here’s a simple framework founders can use as a year-end reset.