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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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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
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How your org structure is leaving millions on the table
An approach that yields unbelievable levels of productivity, driven by a focus on the work that matters most for growth. In practice, this initially feels like cheating.
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How to Build High-Functioning Marketing Teams
It's human nature for marketers to want to feel as though they are part of a team. The very word teamsignifies something deeply personal in business—a calling card, of sorts, that indicates one’s stature and position within the organization. “I am on Josh’s team,” we
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Why CMOs Must Commit to Building Better Teams
If companies take this opportunity to dig deeper into the root causes of employee dissatisfaction, they will begin to realize that organizational structures are holding people back both personally and professionally.