teamwork
6 ways to build a culture of discovery
How do you cultivate an environment that’s ripe for innovation? Create a space for discovery. Discovery is finding what was once hidden. In today’s hyper-connected, information-overloaded world, that’s more difficult than ever. Pretty ironic, right? So much information at our fingertips, but the needle in the haystack is as ellusive as ever. Real discoveries are […]
3 types of peer feedback to avoid (and 1 to aim for)
Quick poll: Who here loves giving peer feedback? Who loves getting it? (Yeah, not a lot) If you’re like most folks, you don’t love the feedback process, but you also know it’s an essential part of being on a team. At its core, peer feedback is good for us: it helps us grow and be […]
How to hack your habits: author James Clear shares his life-changing strategy
Admit it: You’ve got a few pesky habits you’d like to kick. Oh, and we know you’ve got big plans for how you’re going to change your ways. But how long have you been saying this without actually springing into action?
Off-topic: boost your happy hour street cred with these obscure beers
Life is to short to keep drinking the same-old, same-old. Expand your horizons and impress your teammates with the nine best brews you’ve never heard of.
I ran an Atlassian Health Monitor with my DnD party
Our DnD party was at each other’s throats, putting the entire campaign at risk. Could the Health Monitor workshops we use with our real-life teams save us?
The remote communication cheat sheet for respecting @all team members
Turning on chat is how I go to the office, even though it is a very short commute.
3 ways Confluence helps you break down silos and get work done
In most organizations, work is spread across multiple tools and silos. To move work forward, teams waste time emailing documents back and forth, making revisions, and combining changes across multiple versions of a document. Once work is complete, documents may live in different places and are hard to find or quickly become outdated, even if a […]
Top tips from great incident response teams
Learn how support, operations, and development teams like Mixpanel, Front, and Grand Rounds come together for great incident response.
Some candid thoughts on getting $#!* done
Motivation is a tricky thing. It’s hard to stay motivated, and it’s hard to find time to work on ourselves. What do we do when “just do it” doesn’t work?
Get your sheet together: how to create an incident communication plan
Downtime happens. While it can certainly be chaotic and stressful, if handled properly, it can also be a chance to build customer trust and loyalty. The way you respond to and communicate around incidents and downtime tells customers a lot about what you value. Therefore, it’s essential to show customers you value them by communicating early, often, […]
Remote office tours: a look into 10 home setups of remote workers
When your company works from an office, there are certain things that you take for granted. Your company provides you with a desk, a chair, computer, keyboard—maybe even a plant! This equipment is all a part of the general “work from office” setup. So what happens when most companies end up needing to go fully remote or adapt to a hybrid work model? You’ve suddenly got a lot of decisions to make about your own personal office.
What 30 years of Stanford research tells us about company culture
Robert Sutton knows company culture. Throughout his 30-year career as professor Professor of Management Science at the Stanford Engineering School, he’s interviewed business leaders and studied the ins and outs of corporate culture like few others. His books include Good Boss, Bad Boss: How to Be the Best…. and Survive the Worst, The Asshole Survival Guide, and he co-authored Scaling Up Excellence with Huggy Rao. […]
Can the future of tech include Autism Spectrum Disorder?
“Don’t worry. You can always get a job as a programmer where you won’t have to talk to anybody.” –conventional wisdom
How a few offhand remarks can cause your biggest problems at work
“As usual, you didn’t turn off the light when you left the conference room.”
4 badass women who moved workplace culture forward
Throughout history, women have struggled to break the glass ceiling. From politics to medicine, women have made strides against societal pressures and pervasive prejudice. Many of those women are little known and rarely applauded for their successes. Today, we’re highlighting four women who set the stage for us all to live and work in a […]