By Jon Ogden | Senior Manager of Content Marketing at Workfront
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Business consultant and author Patrick Lencioni once consulted a CEO who constantly discouraged conflict across his company. “As a result,” Lencioni writes in his book The Advantage, “his staff meetings were generally boring and not terribly useful.”
When taken to extremes, almost any virtue can turn into vice. This is true even for the well-established virtue of streamlining work processes.
Is this a surprising opinion coming from a person who promotes work-management software for a living? It shouldn’t be. After all, the whole point of
If you’re like the average knowledge worker, you check email and IM every 6 minutes. An alarming 40.1% of your day is spent multitasking with communication tools, the dangers of which are well established. And you use 56 different apps and websites per day, switching between them nearly 300 times.
Tightly controlled management processes don’t happen by accident, and they’re never complete. As NASA heartbreakingly realized in 1986 with the explosion of Space Shuttle Challenger, all processes, major and minor, come together to create the whole. History shows a seemingly straightforward decision
By Scott Duehlmeier | Senior Manager of Communications at Workfront
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It’s pretty well established that modern digital culture is not great for our brains. Humans have evolved over centuries to be really great at doing one thing at a time. And now, over the course of just a few decades, we’ve
This is the second post in our new series on experts who have mastered modern work. Subscribe to our blog to get on-the-ground advice from work management experts like Josh Blackwood, principal technology solutions consultant at ADP (featured below).
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Josh Blackwood has always had an interest
By Jordan Staples | Director of Training at Workfront
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Steven Ambrose’s book Band of Brothers tells the story of Lt. Winters and the 11 men of Easy Company from the 101st airborne division.
One week before the invasion on Normandy, the 101st airborne division was shipped to a camp where they
By Jon Ogden | Senior Manager of Content at Workfront
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Whether you work in marketing, information technology, product development, professional services, or a number of other departments, you likely have to manage digital assets.
The problem is that there are hundreds of ways to go about this
To risk stating the obvious, work today is stressful. The digital transformation is driving a culture of distraction and interpersonal disconnection. The pace of work is speeding up. And the ability to remain constantly connected to the office makes us feel like we’re never unplugged.
Can you
By Jon Ogden, Senior Manager of Content Marketing at Workfront
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Warren Buffett is fond of saying, "You only have to do a very few things right in your life, so long as you don't do too many things wrong."
There’s a reason Buffett’s fond of saying it. This philosophy has led him to a life of
By Shelbi Gomez | Senior Communications Manager at Workfront
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Usually when we write about workplace visibility on this blog, we focus on organizational visibility and transparency—the ability to know who is working on what, to see and manage the capacity and momentum of a team, and to
By Scott Duehlmeier | Senior Communication Manager at Workfront
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Visibility is increasingly vital in the modern workplace, as we continue to grapple with accelerating automation, digital transformation, and the changing nature of work itself. I’m not referring here to making yourself and your
This is the first post in our new series about masters of modern work. Subscribe to our blog to get on-the-ground advice from work management experts like Scott Shippy, PMO Sr. Director at Viasat (featured below).
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Scott Shippy never set out to be a project manager.
He started his career in
