In case you've missed our coverage so far, this week is Workfront's user conference, known affectionately as LEAP 2017. As part of the conference, I attended a keynote by comedian and motivational speaker Michael Junior. I laughed. I cried. I learned something new about finding one's purpose in life
This year, our special guest star on all things Agile marketing, Andrea Fryrear, will be providing Agile marketing newbies with a monthly step-by-step guide to their first year as an Agile marketer. This post is the fifth in the series. Enjoy!
If you’ve seen a photo of an Agile team at work, chances
This is the third post in our “Off-Mic with Masterful Marketers” series. We sat down with some of the most inspiring, influential speakers from marketing events around the world to discuss productivity, making work meaningful, and managing teams to do great work. The previous post featured advice on
Remember the good old days of communication? You know, the time before all our messages transmogrified into cold bits of zeros and ones?
Wouldn’t it be nice to reinject a little more humanity back into our work lives? After all, those emails and text messages can’t relay the facial expressions
This is the fourth post in our “Off-Mic with Masterful Marketers” series. We sat down with some of the most inspiring, influential speakers from marketing events around the world to discuss productivity, making work meaningful, and managing teams to do great work. The previous post featured advice
As a consultant charged with a project at a new client, you don’t know what is going to clobber you as walk through the door that first day. You may find your project team is exceedingly hostile, you sit three feet from the train tracks, and rats will steal your lunch (a true client story).
But you
This is the sixth post in our “Off-Mic with Masterful Marketers” series. We sat down with some of the most inspiring, influential speakers from marketing events around the world to discuss productivity, making work meaningful, and managing teams to do great work. The previous post featured advice on
This year, our special guest star on all things Agile marketing, Andrea Fryrear, will be providing Agile marketing newbies with a monthly step-by-step guide to their first year as an Agile marketer. This post is the sixth in the series. Enjoy!
Chicken and waffles.
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Remember the 1940s cartoon Mighty Mouse? At the climax of each episode, the hero would swoop in to avert disaster at the last possible moment to the stirring tune “Here he comes to save the day!”
You’ll find that character type in most workplaces, minus the cape and rodent whiskers.
But what they
Keeping work organized is a fool’s task in today’s world.
The win-at-all-cost mentality of most businesses forces us to have too much to do and too little time to do it in so we sacrifice seemingly non-essential tasks (like the 10 to 15 minutes each morning to get organized for the day).
See our
The world of work is changing.
At Workfront, we’ve been a part of that transition for years. Knowledge work is becoming less hierarchical, more democratic, more project-based than static team-based. Our CEO, Alex Shootman, likes to call it the “Hollywood model of work.”
For an in-depth example of
In a recent webinar, Jeanne Meister, founding partner at Future Workplace, Alan Lepofsky, vice president and principal analyst at Constellation Research, and Steven ZoBell, chief product and technology officer at Workfront, sat down to discuss how businesses can prepare for the evolution of people,
