How the “Aggregation of Marginal Gains” can help Distributed Teams become high-performing
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Claim: applying the Aggregation of Marginal Gains to remote teams—improving many small things by ~1%—produces outsized performance gains. Examples: British Cycling moves from one Olympic gold to dominating post‑2003 medal counts by changing pillows, handwashing and bike fit; rugby/ dentistry examples lead to the 2003 World Cup. Practical fixes built and tested include remote‑first norms, engagement syncs and team charters, better webcams/headsets, wired internet, Miro whiteboards and Slack habits; these increase shared context, collaboration and measurable trust.
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- 0:00Intro
- 1:02What is the Theory of Marginal Gains
- 4:03GB Olympic cycling medals
- 5:56Habits are the compound interest
- 7:17What are the conditions required for a remote team to become high- performing?
- 12:29High performance teams
- 15:26Team Ceremonies & Practices that help establish context
- 15:55Engagement Sync
- 18:45Sound and Vision
- 22:27You can't force a team to collaborate
- 28:23Working Day Etiquette
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