Teaming
The Productivity Paradox: Why Your Busiest Weeks Are Often Your Best
The secret isn't working more hours – it's creating the right constraints that make every hour count.
Teaming
When the Email Should Actually Be a Meeting
The most effective teams don’t lean too hard on just one channel but rather pick the right medium for the message.
Teaming
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.
Modern Marketing
Global or local? Hub or spoke? This old debate is asking the wrong question.
Global and local marketing teams are supposed to be on the same side. Instead, they’re playing tug of war with multimillion dollar budgets. We’re all pursuing the same goal — so why are we competing? We tend to see problems either top down (re: competing priorities and KPIs) or
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