Weekly Rituals Hold a Global Team Together

technique — attributed to Colja Dams

A Monday morning global call, open to everyone across every time zone, where someone in Singapore asks whether anyone knows a specialist in southern France and someone does. Ice cream at the Wuppertal headquarters on the CEO's birthday. The most successful office of the year builds the entire annual program, with the junior members of that team designing the experience for everyone else. Simple structures, applied every week without exception, are what keep a global organization from becoming a collection of independent outposts.

Organizational Rituals / Cohesion

global team, weekly ritual, distributed culture