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This One Quick Tip Will Reduce Product Bloat
Adding a feature to a successful product always seems like a good idea at the time: maybe a major customer requested a “simple” tweak, or a competitor launched a new feature that your product could...
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On August 10th, 2015, Maren Kate Donovan, the CEO and Founder of Zirtual, sent an email to her employees stating that, sadly, Zirtual was defunct. As one of those (former) employees, I can safely say...
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Declare “No-Meeting Wednesdays” to Increase Workplace Productivity
The team at Asana realized they were unable to find uninterrupted work time free from the distraction of frequent meetings. Inspired by Facebook’s meeting policy, they implemented “No-Meeting...
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Make Random Decisions to Manage Uncertainty
What Is It? In a highly uncertain work environment, making a random decision (flipping a coin, pulling ideas from a hat) can lead to better results than by using “best practices.” Who Does It? In a...
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Three Tools to Help Reduce Decision Fatigue
Every day, we are faced with decisions that can range from seemingly minute to hugely impactful. Making decisions as a group is complicated even further by the addition of different perspectives,...
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Google Alphabet Shows How Reorganization Can Support Innovation
As a company scales, added complexity makes it harder to focus on the original source of the company’s success: innovation. At Google, for instance, corporate gatekeepers, PR concerns, and legal...
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How to Avoid Feeling Overwhelmed at Work
Having more meetings, suggesting a new process, and hiring more people are necessary for organizations to accomplish their goals. However, these things can also create unnecessary complexity —...
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Improve Employee Retention with Three Simple Rules
Fast-casual restaurant chain b. good was founded 12 years ago with a simple mission to serve their community high quality food quickly, and create an environment where employees wanted to come to work...
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Prevent Top Performers’s Job Burn Out by Limiting “Success Syndrome”
A recent Harvard Business Review piece revealed a striking statistic: the more a person was an effective source of information and the more their colleagues wanted to access them, the less engaged...
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EY Updates Its Hiring Practices to Expand Its Talent Pool
While GPAs and alma maters have long been used to filter potential job candidates, meta-analysis after meta-analysis has found no evidence of college success as a predictor of career achievement. As a...
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