This interview is part of a series with masters of modern work. Also see our interviews with Scott Shippy, Josh Blackwood, and Greg Stine.

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Cameron Masters studied communications in college and then worked in digital marketing. Like others we’ve interviewed for this series, he didn’t initially

By Scott Duehlmeier | Senior Communication Manager

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Is EQ more important than IQ when it comes to determining success in the modern workplace? According to psychologist Daniel Goleman’s 1995 book, Emotional Intelligence: Why it Can Matter More than IQ, the answer is a resounding yes. Over the

Greg Stine, whose career has taken him from companies ranging from Comcast to Equifax, started his career at NASA.

He had studied biomedical engineering in college, but shortly after starting at NASA he realized that as much as he loved the agency, he didn’t love engineering. “I realized I’m just

The workplace is evolving. Forward-thinking, innovative people are at the helm of that change, ensuring that enterprises thrive through digital transformation and the ongoing digital work crisis. That’s what the Workfront Lion Awards are all about. These annual awards showcase the groundbreaking

By Heather Hurst | Senior Director of Corporate Communications

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I find it ironic that we call these mini super computers we carry in our pockets “phones.” The voice calling feature has long since ceased to be the primary purpose of the device. Just check your screen time data. You likely spend

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

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

How do the attendees at this year’s Adobe Summit conference feel about work?

Do they feel like their coworkers can effortlessly see their contributions? Do they feel like they have a clear sense for what other departments at their company are doing? Do they feel overwhelmed by the pace of

You’ve heard the old saying: “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” But with process management, you may want to throw that saying out the window. In business, things don’t have to be broken in order to benefit from regular and even constant improvement. In fact, constant improvement is often the best

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