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Anu Bharadwaj

Stop romanticizing watercooler talk. As a fully distributed company of 12,000, here’s what really works

Anu Bharadwaj, president of Atlassian. (Credit: courtesy of Atlassian)

Growing up, I was a perfectionist. I would pore over my work, refining drafts until I felt confident sharing it with the rest of the world. This was certainly what I experienced in my early career—that is, until I arrived at Atlassian.

When I joined the company, I was asked to do all of my work in one of our products called Confluence, which is like a giant internal wiki. Confluence was open by default, which meant everyone could see the early, rough drafts of my work. 

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