Distributed

Darren Murph

• Publisher: Major Street Publishing
• Year: 2026
• Topic: Business
• eBook ISBN:
  9781923186460
• Subtopic: Entrepreneurship
• Index: Business

Darren Murph is a pioneer in distributed work and a recognized visionary in organizational design. As Head of Remote, he led workplace strategy and operations at GitLab, the world’s first fully distributed company to IPO.

A roadmap to what excellence looks like in the future world of work.

This ground-breaking book challenges the modern company to build healthy and productive remote teams, to ensure they are attracting the best talent. To do this, they must look to a ‘distributed’ model – based on remote-first principles of communication, culture, productivity, and leadership.

Darren Murph is a pioneer in distributed working, having launched and scaled the world’s first officeless company to successful IPO.

Distributed questions every element of the corporate status quo; challenges where and how culture is formed and grown; and takes a systems-level approach to running a people-driven company, which leans on a shared way of working and an intentionally selected digital tool stack to create cohesion in the absence of a physical office.

This innovative book is for employees who want more agency and freedom in where/how they complete their work, and for employers who need to revise their mindsets to create an environment where modern work can thrive.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Dedication
• Foreword
• Chapter 1: The Invisible Skyscraper of Remote Work
• Chapter 2: Where Distributed Work Won’t Work (and Why Return-to-Office Reversions Were Inevitable)
• Chapter 3: How to Rise Above Traditional Standards With a Distributed Company
• Chapter 4: This Isn’t for Everyone: Personalities Most Likely to Thrive with Agency and Autonomy
• Chapter 5: Don’t Make Meetings Better; Make Them Harder to Have
• Chapter 6: R-E-S-P-E-C-T: Shifting Mindsets to Empower Asynchronous Workflows
• Chapter 7: Releasing Control: Culture Will No Longer Be Built from Within the Workplace
• Chapter 8: If It’s Not Written Down, It Doesn’t Exist: The Case for Rigorous Documentation and Self-Serve Methodologies
• Chapter 9: No More Nine-to-Five: Using AI and Digital Systems to Enable the Nonlinear Workday
• Chapter 10: Digital Tools for Distributed Work Excellence
• Chapter 11: Check Your Politics at the Door: How Accountability Systems Can Replace Corporate Politics
• Chapter 12: Loyalty One Way Is Stupidity: Competitive Advantages to Meet the Next Generation’s Workplace Expectations
• Conclusion: Building a Better Future, Together
• Further Reading
• Acknowledgments
• About the Author
• Copyright