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Fishburners Fireside Chat with John O'Duinn | Distributed Teams as a Competitive Advantage

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Join us for a fireside chat with John O'Duinn, who has written code, designed systems and led teams in organisations ranging from four-person startups to nonprofits to multinationals—including Mozilla Firefox and the US Government as part of the Obama White House, for the US Digital Service.

This will be the first speaker event of 2019 for Fishburners, in our brand new event space.

  • How much: The booking fee for the $15 tickets will go directly toward Room to Read - a charity working to ensure every child has access to an education.
  • Where: Level 2, Sydney Startup Hub (Fishburners Event Space)
  • When: Networking from 6pm, event begins at 6:30pm
  • What: Fireside chat + some drinks & snacks

About the Chat 

Over the last ~20 years, we've moved from jokes about "working at home in bunny slippers" to viewing distributed teams as a competitive advantage.

How did this happen? More importantly, what are the cold, hard, business advantages to this trend that can help you and your organisation?

How can this trend help your organisation hire better, hire faster and improve retention? Can your organisation save money while also addressing important social, diversity, urban planning and environmental issues? How can your team or organisation work well together even when physically apart? Can you have a meaningful, well-paid career without a daily commute to a physical office?

We'll look at these and other questions during this wide-ranging session - and will also include practical, actionable steps you can start using the very next day. This is usually a lively interactive topic, so we're allowing extra time for Q+A discussions.

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About the Speaker

As a computer guy, John O'Duinn is comfortable with high stress, high ambiguity projects and enjoys using his skills with scaling large complex distributed systems to solve problems that make a measurable difference to real humans. He is a senior strategist at CivicActions.com as well as advisor and mentor to geo-distributed organisations.

In addition to technology, John loves growing a culture where diverse groups of humans work well together in a distributed global workplace. He has worked in distributed companies of one form or another for 27 years, led distributed teams for 14 years and consulted/mentored for five years. He recently published "Distributed Teams: The Art and Practice of Working Together While Physically Apart" - a practical handbook for people who don't have time to read a book. He has lived and worked in 13 cities across four continents - and is on track to fill his passport again.


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