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Perpetual: Reads | Leading from Anywhere

Our series of book recommendations to empower talent and fuel brands.

Leading from Anywhere

Why Perpetual recommends it

David Burkus’ Leading from Anywhere is a practical playbook for managing remote and hybrid teams well, covering the full arc from onboarding and one-on-ones to running meetings and giving feedback when a team is distributed across locations and time zones.

Burkus is direct that most remote leadership failures aren’t really about technology, they’re about leaders trying to replicate in-person habits, hallway check-ins, informal visibility, over video call, instead of redesigning those habits for a genuinely different working environment.

The book leans heavily on structure and documentation as substitutes for physical presence: clear written expectations, deliberate over-communication, and asynchronous-friendly processes that don’t require everyone online at the same time to function well.

We recommend this book as a practical companion for any leader managing a distributed team, because it treats remote leadership as its own skill set to be learned deliberately, rather than an inconvenient variation on in-person management.

  • Remote leadership failures are usually about outdated habits, not technology limitations
  • Structure and documentation can substitute effectively for physical presence
  • Asynchronous-friendly processes reduce the burden of constant real-time coordination
  • Remote leadership is a distinct skill set, not simply in-person management over video

Audit one core leadership habit, your one-on-ones, your team check-ins, and redesign it specifically for a distributed team instead of just moving it onto video unchanged.

We give this book three and a half out of five stars.

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