Whether you’ve gone remote to help protect your team from COVID-19 or draw from a wider pool of talent, you’ve no doubt discovered that working remotely presents significant challenges.

How can you stay connected if you rarely meet face-to-face?

As technology evolves at a breakneck pace, it’s becoming even more complex. Same goes for organizations as they scale: a 100-person team has over 26 times the potential internal connections of a 20-person team.

How can you manage complexity without adding to it?

Uncertainty is a hallmark of complexity. Even the simplest organizations are subject to unprecedented risk in our increasingly complex and inter-dependent world.

How can you plan for the future without losing your sanity?

Agile frameworks such as Scrum, Kanban, and Lean enable continuous improvement of an organizations tools, processes, structure, and culture. With effort, practice, and support, you can deliver twice the value—in half the time—with far more joy.

Managing complexity doesn’t have to be complex. In fact, many companies find that reducing the complexity of their organization improves their outcomes. Large Scale Scrum is a relatively simple way to coordinate work across multiple Agile teams, whether a few, dozens, or hundreds.

Although it originated thousands of years ago among monks, mystics, and yogis, meditation has been rigorously studied by modern neuroscience and we now understand many of the mechanisms. Meditation can be deeply practical and requires no spiritual faith, just a willingness to give it a sincere trial. With skillful instruction, most people rapidly discover the benefits for themselves, finding improved stress relief, productivity, and well-being.