Change Management
What can our teams learn from Kendrick and Drake?
Teams don’t just need a vision; they need a fight worth fighting.
Talent
Casting for Greatness
Organizations have a tendency to build teams around talent. But there is a real case to be made for clearly defining the work, then building a team primed to deliver against it. I have a background in Dance/Choreography, so let’s think about this through that lens. Imagine I&
Talent
High- and Low-Cortisol Organizations
The implications of a chaotic work environment
Teaming
“We hereby conduct this Post-Mortem” - Taylor Swift (and us)
Three tips to make Post-Mortems not the worst.
Teaming
High-quality mission: necessary but not sufficient
Here are four ways teams can go astray even if they have a fantastic, visionary mission – and what you can do about it.
Teaming
Open Enrollment: Ways of Working Edition
Why you should be thinking of your documentation like Open Enrollment.
Teaming
Introducing The Meeting Agenda Horseshoe Theory
We have a confession to make. We tend to not add meeting agendas to our internal team invites. We know. We know. One of the most recommended ways of working is 📣"Every meeting needs an agenda" 📣 - how could we not adopt the practice for ourselves? Enter: The
Teaming
Let's talk about stinky fish
Stinky fish is an exercise originally created by Hyper Island that we like to leverage over Black Glass (both for clients and ourselves) that involves naming your 'stinky fish' - the thing that if you don't say it out loud right now, after a few weeks
Teaming
Post office closure. We have notes.
Last week we signed back on following our office closure and we must share how it went. Here are just a few of our learnings and how we think we can improve for future office closures. "I am feeling a strong meeting hangover from the time off" -
Teaming
We're in our return-to-office era.
So, you’re going back to the office. Let’s make it not suck.
Teaming
AI Research: Only 7% of Marketing Jobs Are Safe
We reviewed the academic literature on the potential for AI machine learning to automate certain professional tasks. Then we compared and ranked those functions against the modern marketing org – a mere 7% of which is strongly resistant to automation.
Teaming
Set your mindsets, and stick to them
We’ve recently been doing some research on remarkable companies and their operating systems. What makes them unique? What makes the system work? How do they improve? One operating system we’ve been obsessed with lately is the Danaher Business System (DBS for short). Danaher is a holdco/conglomerate focused