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

By Jon Ogden | Senior Manager of Content Marketing at Workfront

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“If you lead any type of work,” Workfront CEO Alex Shootman writes in his book Done Right, “you’re accountable to motivate others to do that work well.”

To help readers know how to motivate others, Alex outlines three essential

The word “risk” has a complicated reputation. To some, it is a terrifying thing to be avoided. To others, it’s an exciting motivator. To project managers, it’s an inevitable part of the process that should be expected and planned for.

Project risk refers to any unplanned event that pops up

By Jon Ogden | Senior Manager of Content Marketing at Workfront

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Some days nothing seems more natural than working in front of a computer screen. If you’re like me, you and almost everyone you know does it, and few of us give it a second thought. It’s just the way life is.

And yet as recently as

By Heather Hurst | Senior Director of Corporate Communications at Workfront

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“The culture of most organizations is that every task needs 100 percent effort,” writes Workfront CEO Alex Shootman in his new book, Done Right: How Tomorrow’s Top Leaders Get Stuff Done. “Wrong. Every task needs 100

By Heather Hurst | Senior Director of Corporate Communications

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“Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big successes,” wrote David J. Schwartz, author of The Magic of Thinking Big, published in 1959.

This is a nice thought that’s as true today as it was 60

By Alex Shootman | CEO at Workfront

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“Lead like your children are watching.”

It’s a simple but powerful thought that shifts a leader’s posture from privilege to responsibility — an awareness that how you talk, walk, ask questions, praise, criticize and spend your time has a