It's easier to get feedback and make adjustments with how a team works if you're in the same room. Feedback is hard to come by in life at all. It's easy to give the pretense of feedback: anyone can say to a coworker, “Do you have any feedback for me?” and for the person to say, “No. Not really,” and then for you to say, “Okay, great. Thanks!” and walk off having validated all of your bogus assumptions about your awesomeness for another year. The reality check is to consider how many things you've wanted to say to people you've worked with that if they were open to it, could have helped them do
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