Teaming - Black Glass

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We need to talk about RACIs.

RACIs promise clarity but deliver confusion. True organizational clarity emerges when you do the uncomfortable work of articulating everyone's unique contribution. It's not as clean as filling out a matrix, but unlike RACIs, it actually creates the flow and rhythm your team desperately needs.

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&

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High- and Low-Cortisol Organizations

The implications of a chaotic work environment

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“We hereby conduct this Post-Mortem” - Taylor Swift (and us)

Three tips to make Post-Mortems not the worst.

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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.

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Open Enrollment: Ways of Working Edition

Why you should be thinking of your documentation like Open Enrollment.

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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

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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

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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" -

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We're in our return-to-office era.

So, you’re going back to the office. Let’s make it not suck.

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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.

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