You may have heard: Google Moderator has been discontinued – The tool thousands of companies used to host their all-hands meetings.
The bad news is that companies that relied on Moderator to crowdsource Continue reading Announcing SpeakUp Live – Host More Effective Meetings
“Any hierarchy inevitably is going to create distance between the decision making apparatus and the reality it’s trying to arbitrate.”
Continue reading Work Smart #14 – Ex-British diplomat, gentle anarchist & author, Carne Ross
Join us as Thomas Knoll shares lessons learned from starting several tech companies. Topics covered:
-Why separating emotion from logic is not the right approach in business
-Achieving “flow state” in your work
-Rules to help manage distributed teams
-Parallels between startup relationships & family relationships
Continue reading Work Smart #13 – Serial entrepreneur + efficiency hacker, Thomas Knoll
Join us as ultra-passionate tech worker Dan O’Leary shares his insight. Topics covered:
-How Dan landed a gig at Box, pre-IPO
-How and why old-school companies are finally embracing cloud services
-The infamous “VP of NO” & “Director of Status Quo”
-The signs of burnout at work & what to do
-Box’s version of OKRs: “GTDx” – Goals, Tactics, Dependencies + X-factor
-Why helping others at work is better for everyone
Continue reading Work Smart #12 – Dan O’Leary from Box & his best productivity hacks
Join us as our Aussie friend Matt Zanello walks us through his methodology for making the complex simple in business planning. Topics covered:
-The problems with traditional business planning
-Bringing everyone into the problem solving process
-Where consulting fits into business planning and when it is/isn’t necessary
-The risks of bright shiny-object-syndrome
-The importance of story telling in business planning
Continue reading Work Smart #11 – Less painful business planning, with Matt Zanello
Listen in as Joey tells us how his accelerator agency, Scotch and Pretzels, is disrupting the PR industry. Topics covered:
-The trouble with old school PR
-How marketing is changing to be smarter & more measurable
-Startup culture versus big corporate culture
-How to work remotely and get shit done
Continue reading Work Smart #10 – The PR guru that got us into Forbes, Joey Pomerenke
(Originally appeared on Entrepreneur.com)
Every year millennials — those born sometime between the early 1980s and 2000s — account for a larger percentage of the workforce. What’s more, as they climb the career ladder, they’re taking on roles with more responsibility and importance.
Continue reading 5 Ways to Make Your Office Millennial Friendly
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Mark Cicoria, serial entrepreneur and CEO of WorkingOn, joins us to discuss:
-The Vegas startup scene
-Holacracy and the future of management
-Reducing communication overhead across teams
-Objective setting and decision making
-Enabling teams to be more productive
“If you really have it in your heart and soul, you have to do it”
Listen in as Aisha tells her story of climbing the ranks in corporate before venturing off on her own.
Continue reading Work Smart #7 – Aisha Visram, Founder of Mobile Guroo