A framework to work more efficiently and effectively as a distributed team

All too often corporate America defaults to “let’s have a meeting” to make progress. The US productivity suffers tremendously from this meeting culture, as it is not very efficient. It is only trumped by its addiction to the bulleted powerpoint presentation. There are plenty of articles describing how to escape the dreaded meeting, or how to organize and run a meeting in a more productive way. However, a meeting in itself is not the problem.