Research suggests that while dispersed teams, working remotely, are often more efficient than co-located teams at successfully completing projects, they also tend to persist with failing projects longer than than co-located teams.
Going forward in a hybrid work environment, managers need to help dispersed teams get better at failing fast.
This will involve better screening and planning of projects, more frequent synchronous working, and more managerial monitoring and intervention.
More importantly, sharing with your teams that failing is part of the process of learning and you need to fail so you can learn and improve.
Holding out on a project that is going nowhere does not help either teams or businesses in the long term, so having an open culture of success and failure really will help cultivate stronger results and build a more inclusive team mentality.
