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The 37signals Guide to Internal Communication
37signals runs almost entirely on writing instead of meetings, and Jason Fried just published the full guide to how. The bet is that long-form, written, async communication beats talking for nearly everything that matters. You can feel the philosophy in the rules of thumb: meetings are a last resort, writing solidifies while chat dissolves, a one-hour meeting with five people is really a five-hour meeting, and ASAP is poison.
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