Jeff Robbins interviews Chris Neumann, Founder and CEO of Cro Metrics, about starting and growing a distributing company, remote management best practices, and hiring top talent for remote companies.

Discussion Topics

• How does Cro Metrics run as a distributed company?

• Determining pay scales based on value to the company, not by typical salaries in a geographical area.

• What are the biggest lessons you’ve learned in the early stages of growing your company?

• Importance of shared experiences and company retreats for remote teams

• Communicating and collaborating effectively as remote workers

• Leading with transparency and trust

• Setting and achieving OKRs to improve the productivity of distributed teams

• Advantages of a distributed company vs a co-located company

• Why remote management is good management

• Helping remote employees to self-manage, as opposed to micromanagement

• What is “the client shirt” all about?

• Fostering a high performance company culture and prioritizing the customer

• What about hierarchy?

• How to attract top talent and hire remote workers

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