By Jon Ogden | Senior Manager of Content Marketing at Workfront

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Most startups fail.

Most novelists have day jobs.

Most actors barely scrape by, totally unnoticed.

And yet…

A few startups make millions, a few novelists get read around the world, and a few actors are among the most

By Heather Hurst | Senior Director of Corporate Communications at Workfront

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There’s a famous business adage that says, “If you can’t measure it, it doesn’t exist.” But only slightly less well known is this: “If you can’t see it, you can’t measure it.” (Also “never go in against a Sicilian when

By Jon Ogden | Senior Manager of Content Marketing at Workfront

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Have you ever seen two sharks carry on a conversation about the nature of the universe? Or a hive of bees debate what the future of work might look like five years from now, given a hazy economic forecast?

We humans do these

Most educators are familiar with the idea that there are four types of learners: visual, auditory, reading, and kinesthetic. In the world of work, a similar concept is divided into two types of office environments: structured and unstructured. Some employees thrive and learn best in one more than

By Scott Duehlmeier | Senior Communication Manager at Workfront

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Here it is, the end of January, and the vast majority of us couldn’t perfectly stick to our New Year’s Resolutions. Including, ahem, yours truly. If you’re feeling like a complete failure over it, don’t. According to U.S. News and

By Jon Ogden | Senior Manager of Content Marketing at Workfront

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“What is the most marketable skill of the future?”

It’s a question that was asked by marketing strategist Chelsea Krost to a panel of four work management experts during the launch of Done Right: How Tomorrow’s Leaders Get Stuff

During the launch of Done Right: How Tomorrow’s Top Leaders Get Work Done, we spoke to three thought leaders about work management:

• Laura Goodrich — Speaker, consultant, and author of Seeing Red Cars
• Sophie Wade — Speaker, consultant, and author of Embracing Progress
• Mark Schaefer — Speaker,

By Shelbi Gomez | Senior Communications Manager at Workfront

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One of the most challenging phases in the growth of a business is when it becomes clear that your old project management software and methods aren’t working anymore, but you’re not exactly sure what to do instead. After all, the

The shift to digital work has been dramatic and swift.

For instance, the Brookings Institute found that since 2002, the share of jobs in high digital skills occupations grew from 5% to 23% while the share of jobs in low digital skills occupations plummeted from 56% to 30%. It’s a trend that will

By Shelbi Gomez | Senior Content Manager at Workfront

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You’ve probably seen the hashtag all over Instagram: #relationshipgoals #squadgoals #fitgoals, or simply #goals. It’s a shortcut way to say, “I want a relationship like that, a group of friends like that, a body like that, a work

The importance of quality in business cannot be overstated. In his book, Done Right, Workfront CEO Alex Shootman uses the history of the American car industry as an example. “In the 1970s and 1980s, the big American automakers started to lose global and domestic market share to their Japanese

By Shelbi Gomez, Senior Communications Manager at Workfront

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Project management best practices have been quietly serving us well for more than a century, beginning with Henry Gantt’s famous chart and Henri Fayol’s five management functions. And while the foundational principles remain perfectly