@Team and the All New Autocomplete
We heard your complaints about the old autocomplete. You had to know the username of the teammate that you wanted to mention. That was all fine and good when your teammate’s username was @janesmith,...
View ArticleYour Accomplishments, Now with Emojis
We’re excited to present to you: the launch of emojis for iDoneThis! It’s a fun way to record your accomplishments and share with your team how you’re feeling. To give it a try, just type a colon and...
View ArticleHow to Use an Amazon Echo for Your Startup Office
This week’s post is a guest article by Vinay Patankar, CEO and co-founder of Process Street. If you’re running a startup, you can use every little bit of help you can get. But to justify an...
View ArticleHow to Make Your Company Email Totally Transparent
This is a guest post by Mathilde Collin from Front. Be sure to check out the Front Blog for more tips on managing team emails. Transparency helps you move fast. Information isn’t siloed — it’s all...
View ArticleLast-Minute Checklist for Productive Startup Launches
As I got ready to launch GetDelight, my team and I created a last minute list of things we had left to do — we put it on GitHub and checked things off when completed. Print Our Checklist From...
View ArticleThe State of Human Resources (Before I Done This)
Human resources needs a swift kick in the butt. I say this based on experience — I’ve done a lot of back-office work while running TypeFrag, Carbonmade and other companies. I’ve set up and managed...
View ArticleHow to Focus on the Magic Even When Scaling Up
Teams of all sizes struggle with their processes at some point in their lifetime. If you’re a startup, one of the your advantages is how quickly you can move in a space where the big boys take a while....
View Article12 Startup Leaders on What They Love about Their Company Cultures
Startup founders begin with building new products and end up building new companies. Ultimately, some of the most successful companies not only reinvent a product or market, they change the way people...
View Article95% of Managers Follow an Outdated Theory of Motivation
This post was originally published in 2014. It has been revamped with additional research and advice for managers in 2019. Photo by Alex Kotliarskyi on Unsplash What, by a long shot, is the most...
View ArticleJeff Bezos’s Peculiar Management Tool for Self-Discipline at Amazon Meetings
We originally published this piece in 2017. Two years later, we added fresh advice for managers. The modern workplace’s vogue is informal information exchange. We sit in open floor plan offices so that...
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This Deli Makes $50 Million a Year By Staying Small
It’s crazy to discover there’s a deli that makes $50 million dollars a year. It’s stranger still how they’ve managed to accomplish it. Most restaurants grow their revenue by opening more locations and...
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Written Communication Channels at Work – Where Your Intranet Fits
This is a guest post from Lisa Banks, an expert in workplace communication and writer at content marketing agency Animalz. Good communication is vital to a productive, healthy workplace. But where that...
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Google Snippets
The Definitive Guide to Google Snippets I knew nothing about Google Snippets before I moved to Silicon Valley. But when I was out there, I kept hearing that successful company after company — like...
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The Shit Sandwich and Other Terrible Ways to Give Feedback
Contrary to common misconception, giving feedback—insightful, useful feedback—is surprisingly difficult. Why? Because, as legendary venture capitalist Ben Horowitz once observed, it’s completely,...
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The Ultimate Remote Tool Stack For 2020
This is a guest post from Lisa Banks, an expert in workplace communication and writer at content marketing agency Animalz. Choosing the right tools for your remote team is second only to hiring the...
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Bad Managers Talk, Good Managers Write
The exemplary manager is often shown as the outgoing guy that gives his team pep talks and high fives. In truth, though, that stereotype couldn’t be farther from the truth. To four highly effective,...
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So You’re New to Remote Work
COVID-19 quarantines and self-isolation have put millions of workers at home for the first time, trying to get remote work done while managing home life. It’s easy to struggle with communication and...
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Entrepreneurs Share the Only Thing that Matters
The journey of the entrepreneur is to figure out what matters. We know that starting a company requires extreme focus and prioritization. We know that a focused culture can make an unbeatable team. We...
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Remote Work is Here to Stay
Remote work is increasing across the globe, in every industry that can manage it—and it isn’t just the pandemic that’s making it happen. Sure, the pandemic forced an increase in speed and breadth of...
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Writing is Power: Supercharge Your Writing Process
We’re writing more than ever these days. Every day, you’re texting, emailing, and chatting. As many of us sit at our computers at work all day and our phones everywhere else in between, we’re writing....
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