Weekdone Academy Newsletter

#76 - November 2019

Contents: It is time to look past this year and start planning for the next. Every leader hopes that next year's outputs meet their team and company goals.  Weekdone is here to help you do that. Here are some articles that will help you get started with your performance management, goal setting, and work planning for… Continue reading

#75 - September 2019

Contents: At some point, everyone who starts researching the Objectives and Key Results (OKR) methodology will find themselves confused, asking themselves "What the fork are OKRs?". To help cut through all the bullshirt, Weekdone has put together a new ebook: "WTF are OKRs?" that is available to download for free.

#74 - July 2019

Contents: Summer is the best time to learn new things and get your leadership skills in shape. From communications to marketing and time management, it is good to stay up to date and become the best. Here at Weekdone, we're are getting ready for a new quarter. These articles will help you get your leadership skills… Continue reading

#73 - May 2019

Contents: Running a business is hard and stressful work. At Weekdone, we know that the best way to reduce stress is to make sure your business runs smoothly. Here are some articles on how you can set better goals, improve your internal processes, and build your company culture.

#72 - April 2019

Contents: At Weekdone, we've been focusing on making our lives simpler and easier this year. From setting more clear, understandable goals to disrupting meetings, read these articles to make sure your work becomes easier and less stressful as well.

#71 - December 2018

Contents: It's the end of the year. We here at Weekdone wish you Happy Holidays. At the same time, we're looking ahead. We hope your 2019 will be more successful than you can imagine now. To get you started with that, here are some articles on how to move forward. From a new OKR book to… Continue reading

#70 - October 2018

Contents: We here at Weekdone are already getting ready for 2019, and you should too. In order to grow your company and make plans, you need to review how your company is running. From your management style and company culture to your goal setting methodology, take a look at everything and get ready for another year… Continue reading

#69 - September 2018

Contents: Goal setting doesn't have to be hard. If you're a smart leader, you should already be thinking about your goals for 2019 and how you can accomplish even more next year. We here at Weekdone are making OKR goal setting even easier to help you achieve even more.

#68 - July 2018

Contents: Building a better product, putting together a stronger team, and growing beyond imagination all starts with your first idea. We here at Weekdone will help you grow, both as an individual and as a company. Find out how to build a company that can scale from 3 to 3000  people.

#67 - July 2018

Contents: Leading your team is all about setting proper goals and measuring the right metrics.  John Doerr,  one of the most influential preachers of the Objectives and Key Results (OKR) methodology, wrote a new book showing just how to do that. At Weekdone, we set our goals every quarter and measure their progress every week. Learn how… Continue reading

#66 - June 2018

Contents: "Champions keep playing until they get it right". When adopting OKRs, or any other new methodology, it is crucial to have one person responsible for successful implementation. Here at Weekdone, we call them OKR Champions. Learn about the importance of Champions and great leadership below.

#65 - May 2018

Contents: We are a collection of our habits. If nothing changes, what is likely to happen? We here at Weekdone, believe in incremental improvement, whether it be in your business or the way you work. Here are the best articles that can help you improve the way you lead, give feedback, hold meetings, and much more.

#64 - May 2018

Contents: We here at Weekdone are proud to present one of our earliest customers, who has been with us since 2015: BMAT. As they grew in size they began to feel they were losing focus on their goals, so they began to look for a better way to manage their quarterly goals and align their weekly activities.

#63 - April 2018

Contents: Businesses need Sales to stay alive in the same way that humans need water. Without Sales, your business will die. Below are articles handpicked by Weekdone to show you the power of Sales and Agile management. Enjoy!

#62 - March 2018

Contents: This Weekdone Academy edition is devoted to practical management advice. We included simple 'How-To' guides to help you be a better manager and save time. We here at Weekdone strive for making our clients' lives more organized and focused. Join us and don't be just busy, be productive!

#61 - March 2018

Contents: Workplace health and well-being programs lead to a significant increase in your team's engagement, overall productivity, and your bottom line. We here at Weekdone work hard on making sure employee status updates are visible to everyone, giving you as a team member the power to act on that information. See how.

#60 - February 2018

Contents: Business goals are special. They unite, align, and serve as a beacon to strive towards. They are the sum of all the smaller goals and achieving them is essential for every individual. We here at Weekdone make sure you pick the right business goals and communicate their importance to everybody in the company. Choose wisely.

#59 - December 2017

Contents: As 2018 is starting and many teams kick off the year with setting new goals, many choose OKRs – Objectives and Key Results – as the foundation. 2017 has really been the year where OKR framework has taken off. We at Weekdone have picked out the best resources to help you to continue your success at… Continue reading

#58 - December 2017

Contents: Now is the perfect time for reflection. If nothing changes, what's likely to happen? What is our organization pretending not to know? What is the most important thing we should be talking about today? We at Weekdone are currently re-evaluating the value we could bring to you in 2018. Join us!

#56 - September 2017

Contents: How to Grow with OKRs, What Every Remote Office Needs to Succeed, What No One Tells You About Your Career, One Simple Technique to Delegate Successfully, How OKRs Helped the IT Leadership Team, Introducing 1:1 Discussions in Weekdone, Remote Work Doesn't Scale or Does It?, OKR Guide: The Batman & Robin Principle, Help Someone to Discover Work That Excites Them

#55 - September 2017

Contents: How Humanitec Creates Alignment With OKRs, OKRs — A Robust “System” for Company Goals and Alignment, The Second Most Important Metric for Every Company, Acceptance Is the First Step in Dealing With Business Failure, How to Support Employees’ Learning Goals While Getting Stuff Done, 7 Tips for Successful Scaling and Growth, Why It's So Easy to Be a Bad Manager, How Can We Help Employees Find Meaning at Work?, New Features in Weekdone, The One Hour Productivity Hack, Test: Are You Invaluable at Work?, Extra Strength 5-hour Agile

#54 - August 2017

Contents: New OKR FAQ Has All the Answers, How to Use OKRs in Recruiting?, What Google Learned From Studying Effective Bosses, The Future of Performance at Work, Brutally Honest About Meetings, Are Sales Incentives Becoming Obsolete?, 6 Ways to Build Better Products, What Drove Your Last Performance Evaluation?, Monday Commitments and Friday Wins, Becoming a Goal Crusher, The Power of Anti-Goals, Do You Believe in Setting Goals?

#53 - July 2017

Contents: How to Make Sure You Always Have Customers, Want Your Employees to Trust You?, Scale Your Business with Weekdone, Neuroscience Behind Trust, Leveraging the Power of Foresight, 5 Revealing Questions, How Creating Trust Saved A Leader's Team and Legacy, Should Employees Design Their Own Jobs?, How to Motivate and Demotivate, 5 Reasons You Should Use Weekly Planning, Three Simple Principles for Creative Leadership, 4 Tips from Pro Athletes to Increase Your Performance

#52 - June 2017

Contents: Free OKR Templates and Examples, Trickle-down Workaholism in Startups, To Manage or Not to Manage?, Leadership Takes Self-Control, Goal-Setting System used in Google, Let's Stop Calling Them “Soft Skills”, Top 10 Lessons about Startups, Investing and Tech, 10 Ways to Make Your Work Easier, Design the Team You Need to Succeed, How to Make Sure You're Hiring the Right People, Do You Know How Each Person Likes to Work?, Gamify Your Life to Quickly Accomplish Big Goals

#51 - June 2017

Contents: Which Business Goals Are Worth Going After?, Why Can't This Be Done Sooner?, How to Avoid Common Goal-Setting Problems, Science Behind Building a Perfect Team, How to Have Difficult Conversations, If it Doesn't Suck, It's Not Worth Doing, Emotional Leadership, Breaks Improve Productivity, Restorative Vacation, Nobody Cares How Hard You Work, How Trump, Kennedy and Musk Set Goals, Why You Should Do Deep Work

#50 - May 2017

Contents: You Need Transparency to Seek and Provide Help, Givers Take All, Step by Step Guide to OKRs, The Power of Questions, What Collaboration Isn't?, Staying Aligned, Are You a Good Leader?, Ask Not What Your Boss Can Do for You, All Time Best Productivity Tips, The Dark Side of Help, 5 Reasons You Should Invite Your Team to Weekdone, From Average to Successful

#49 - April 2017

Contents: Team Building - Setting OKRs with Your Team, How to Overcome the 5 Dysfunctions of a Team, More Unity - Unlimited OKR Linking, Treat Culture as a Product, How to Tell Your Stars Apart?, An Introvert's Guide to Collaboration, Pretend That You Have Kids, 9 Tips Guaranteed to Build a Winning Team, 10 Tips to Set and Manage OKRs (Advanced Usage), Do People Really Leave Managers?, Why Some Startups Win, No Dickheads!

#48 - February 2017

Contents: Top 10 Questions Managers Have About OKR Goal Setting, The 30 Best Pieces of Advice for Entrepreneurs, Employee Guide to Getting Started with OKRs, When to Set Rigid Goals, and When to Be Flexible, From SpreadSheets to Automated OKRs: Transitioning OKR Platforms, Google CEO Sundar Pichai: “Let others succeed”, To perform at your best, focus on Goals not Tasks, Finding your way from maker to manager, Five Essential Lessons from 20 Years Of Managing People, Bad Habits You Need to Kill Immediately This Year, Moonlighting managers ain’t got no time for bullshit, Your Mars Group is your secret weapon for long-term greatness

#47 - December 2016

Contents: 15 Days of Productivity, Jeff Bezos: Why Getting 8 Hours of Sleep Is Good for Amazon Shareholders, 10 Productivity Pillars of a Successful Company [Infographic], The cult of compulsory happiness is ruining our workplaces, Great CEOs See the Importance of Being Understood, What happens when companies hit 150 employees, 10 Must Read Books to Get More Work Done [Infographic], How to Crush Your Goals in 2017, What Companies Get Wrong About Motivation, Instead of New Year’s Resolutions, Focus on This, On 1:1s, 11 Productivity Hacks Successful Executives Use

#46 - November 2016

Contents: Exxact Corporation Simplifies Work with Weekdone Goal Setting, Three Powerful Conversations Managers Must Have To Develop Their People, How to Polish Your Leadership Skills [Infographic], All You Ever Wanted to Know About All-Hands, Teams Should Focus on What Works, 10 Must Read Books to Get More Work Done [Infographic], 100-Year-Old To-Do List Hack That Works Like a Charm, The Art of the Awkward 1:1, Harvard Psychologist: Why You're Not Achieving Your Goals, 8 Timeless Leadership Lessons, Why The Best Leaders Have Conviction, Predictability and Defining Team Goals in Engineering

#45 - October 2016

Contents: CEO of MURAL: Set Up a Team You Trust, Happy 4th Birthday, Weekdone! [infographic], Leader's Guide: Building High-Performing Teams [e-book], What Nobody Tells You About Becoming the Boss, Weekdone 3 introduces improved personal goal-setting, hits 2.3 million items, My best manager did this..., 7 Insights on Successful Goal-Setting for Entrepreneurs, The First Law of OKRs Creation, The KPI Org Chart, Top-down vs. Bottom-up Hierarchy, Maintaining a Productive Work Environment at Facebook, T-Mobile CEO Explains on Doubling His Customers

#44 - September 2016

Contents: Case Study: How SnapShot Uses Weekdone to Stay Connected, Developing Employees’ Strengths Boosts Sales, Profit, and Engagement, Why You Need More Transparency at Work, Working Hard is not Working Smart, How to Set Goals That Are Motivating, How Google and Others Use OKRs, Elegant Management, You got this: advice for the first-time manager, I Moved My Company To A 5-Hour Workday, 16 practical tips to improve your internal communications, Contrarian Leadership Advice from "The Father of Advertising", Europe's biggest software maker SAP ditches annual reviews, Video: The Journaling Deconstruction, Amazon is piloting teams with a 30-hour workweek, OKR. Not just for work.

#43 - August 2016

Contents: How to Capitalize on Remote Workforce, Achieving Your Dreams is Common Sense, The President Visits Weekdone Team, This Company Retains 95% of Its Employees, Transparency Separates Companies That Thrive, How to Make Your One-on-Ones with Employees More Productive, There Are No Bad Teams, Just Bad Leaders, How The Leaders You Choose Determine the Workplace Efficiency, Setting Powerful Team Goals Using Objectives Key-Results (OKRs), The Guide to Parkinson’s Law of Triviality, Know Thy Time: Peter Drucker’s Strategy To Become More Effective, 5 Irreplaceable Traits Of Successful Teams -- Where Do You Fit?

#42 - July 2016

Contents: 10 Infographics That Will Make You More Efficient at Work, Lazy Leadership, World's Simplest Task Prioritization Technique, Why Do We Develop Senior Leaders, Not Training New Managers?, Best Remote Workplaces Outside Your Cubicle, 5 Surprising Leadership Lessons From Google's Eric Schmidt, A Brief History of Scoring Objectives and Key Results, There Are No Bad Teams, Just Bad Leaders, Saving The World From Bad Meetings [video], The 5 Secrets of Very Productive People, On Leadership: My Biggest Failure, 7 Tips for Effective Employee Goal-Setting

#41 - July 2016

Contents: Culture Expert J. Greenky: If You Refuse to Fit in, Get out, The Principles of Quantum Team Management, The Reason Software Companies Are Better Companies, How I Lead as an Introverted CEO, 3 Tips for Making Quarterly Plans, CEO’s Corner: Inertia in the Workplace, 3 Goals All Entrepreneurs Should Set to Execute Effectively, Steve Jobs and Objectives & Key Results, How to Actually Complete Your To Do List, This Is How the Smartest Entrepreneurs Lead Teams, Why The 8-Hour Workday Doesn't Work, Morning Routine of Kevin O'Leary of Shark Tank

#40 - June 2016

Contents: 10 Infographics That Will Make You a Better Leader, Want to Be a Great Leader? Ask Yourself These Questions Weekly, What Leaders Want - a Weekdone Survey, How to Know If Someone Is Ready to Be a Manager?, Weekdone Hackathon: How We Work and Have Fun, Increase Productivity by Working Just 5 Hours Per Day, The Pros and Cons Of New Unconventional Leadership Styles, A Letter to all Enterprise Leadership Teams, The Curse of Culture, Tony Robbins: Want Success? Rewire Your Mind [Video], How to do the most work in the shortest time, Do You Really Need That Meeting?

#39 - May 2016

Contents: How to Train and Keep New Hires - Examples from Google [guide], Lead, Follow, or Get Out of the Way, How to Motivate People without Using Money? [guide], Developing Organizational Focus, Job Satisfaction: Be Happy, Be Productive [infographic], Better Scheduling: Get into a Rhythm at Work, Transform Your Engineering Team for New Talent, Practical Frameworks for Beating Burnout, Google Makes Public its HR Tactics, Why the Paradox of Choice Might Be a Myth, A Simple Guide to Saying No, Why So Many Smart People Aren't Happy?

#38 - April 2016

Contents: Building a Team of Winners at Mavrck, Test Your Leadership Skills: The Manager Simulator, Free Pocket Productivity Notebook - Get Yours Now, Unintuitive Things I’ve Learned about Management, The Importance of Cultivating Teams, The Brilliant Management Strategy of Google's leader, The Craft of Management, 2x2 Matrix for Deploying OKRs, Creating a Habit of Reporting in Your Team

#37 - March 2016

Contents: How zlien Manages Their Company Objectives with Weekdone, 7 Tough Lessons on Giving Feedback, Leader's Guide to Motivate People at Work [Infographic], Turning Your Employees to be Engaged and Productive, 5 practical things about managing people, Encouraging Brand Advocacy Through Employee Engagement, Teamwork Works Best When Top Performers Are Rewarded, Authenticity in Leadership, Do Fewer Things, Better, Should Leaders Make Us Laugh?, The Curse of the Last Word, Measuring Culture Change Without Killing It

#36 - March 2016

Contents: How TrendWatching Overcame Their Collaboration Challenges, What Google Learned From Its Quest to Build the Perfect Team, How to be as Productive as US Presidents [infographic], Feedback Is The Killer App, PPP - Know What Your Team Is Up To, Meet is Murder, Google Discovers Key to Teamwork is Being Nice, The Most Powerful Lesson in Business, 10 Ways to Be More Efficient at Work, The Measure of a Man, Spreading People Management Skills, Telling a Good Story Is Everything

#35 - February 2016

Contents: Author Andrey Sergeyev: Achieving Goals and Dreams, Study Reveals What Great Executives Know and Do, 3 Key Reasons Why Teams Need Collaboration Software, How I Became a CEO, 10 Management Practices That Boost Employee Productivity, Employees Want Constant Feedback, If You’re Making Decisions, You’re Not Leading, How to Hire, How to Avoid Work, How to tell if you are not scaling as a CEO, Do the Right Thing - How Do You Know?, Multitasking is Killing Your Brain

#34 - February 2016

Contents: Author Victor Lipman: Accomplishing Work Through Others, Thoughts on Leadership in 2016, 3 Step Guide To Status Reports, Scale-up Leadership Lessons from HubSpot's CEO, Guide: How to Prioritize Tasks, What Happens When Companies Nix Performance Ratings, Square Defangs Difficult Decisions with this System, Entrepreneurial Management 101, Google Guide on OKR goal-setting, Unconventional Productivity, You are the reason why communication is broken, Here comes SuperBoss

#33 - December 2015

Contents: 10 Superheroes at Work, Are You Putting Your Superpowers to Work?, Quiz: Superheroes at Work, How to Make Your employees Feel Like Superheroes, Devin Thorpe on Social Entrepreneurship: Be Creative, Discovering Your Super Powers for Meaningful Work, 6 Superhero Secrets to Boost Productivity in the Workplace, New Idea For Employee Engagement: Just Ask, Are You Developing Your Employee’s Super Powers?, The 5 Hidden Superpowers of Balanced Creative Teams, Unleash Your Employees Super Powers, 7 Tips for Managers to Increase Employee Happiness

#32 - November 2015

Contents: How to Handle Employee 1:1 Meetings, The Edison/Jobs Playbook for Market Domination, 9 Traits of High-Performance Teams, Rebuilding Google's Performance Reviews for Startups, 3 Myths about Status Reports, Introduction to High Output Management, How Google Builds Bosses to Order, What Steve Jobs Did to Improve Productivity, Trading Performance Reviews for Superpowers, Kontor - Best of Workplace Design, 4 Tweaks for Better Meetings, What Leaders Need to Know About Happiness

#31 - November 2015

Contents: From Silicon Valley to Europe: How to Attract Top Talent, Can We Be Both Makers and Managers, The Manual for Undermining Organizations Within, Why Bad Guys Win at Work, Using Random Peer 1:1s, Why Top Teams Barf at Employee Engagement Initiatives, Achieving Goals from Playing Candy Crush, You Don't Need Meetings to Collaborate, Leaders Flower in Absence of Managers, 3 Rules to Make Tough Decisions, TED Video: Forget Pecking Order at Work, Focus On What's Important: the Eisenhower Matrix

#30 - October 2015

Contents: Former Skype Executive On Hiring In a Smaller World, The ‘Oh, Shit!’ Moment When Growth Stops, Company Culture Depends on the Collective, A Leader's Guide to Deciding, Moving to a 5-hour Workday, When Leaders Tell Stories, 5 Strategy Questions for Every Leader, Productivity 101 for Designers, Treating Your Employees as Family, Meeting Tricks from Steve Jobs and Elon Musk, The Science of Employee Engagement, Ditching Flat Organization

#29 - September 2015

Contents: Treating the 6 Fake Work Habits [Infographic], Sweden is Shifting to a 6-hour Work Day, CEO Andre Lavoie: The Need for Talent Alignment, How Airbnb is building its culture, Status Reporting 101, Things You Can Do Better as CEO Today, How to Lead When Making Changes, 7 Step Guide To Deliver Results As a Team, Former Google Exec on Making Tough Decisions, Love the Days with 9 Meetings, Why Dyson Does it Differently?, 3 Small Discipline Habits You Can Train

#28 - August 2015

Contents: Leadership Survey Results: Setting Goals and Objectives, How Entrepreneurship Has Changed in 10 Years, 28 Things I’d Do Differently Next Time Around, Leadership Is Freakin' Hard, Get Weekdone for Windows 10, Meetings That Don't Suck, Lack of Internal Communications Killed General Motors, MOKRs: OKRs with a Mission, Big move: Accenture will get rid of annual performance reviews, Building, sustaining, and growing a business, Average Manager vs. Great Manager, Startup got rid of email, meetings, and managers — and thrived, TED Talk: Good Managers Make You Feel Safe, HBR: The Skills That Leaders Need, Why brands like Intel and Google use OKRs and you should, too

#27 - July 2015

Contents: Former Google Recruiter Tells: Make Your Culture F*&king Awesome, Fundamentals of Leadership from an ex Navy SEAL, 21 management things I learned at Imgur, Good Startups Solve Problems, Survey Results: How Much Feedback To Give, Are Your Goals SMART Enough?, Ten Questions to Ask After Setting Your Goals, 3 Ways To Distinguish A Killer Culture, Red Hat CEO's Best Leadership Advice [video], How Adobe keeps key employees from quitting, Bureaucracy Isn’t Inevitable - Here’s How Airbnb Beat It, Here’s how Google reviews employees’ performance

#26 - May 2015

Contents: Case Study: PPPs - a Simple System to Banish Chaos, SMART Goals Test: Are Your Goals Smart?, The Most Intense Motivational Speech of All Time [video], How Companies Can Get 59% Growth in Revenue? [infographic], Why you should separate goals and compensation, How Can a Team Manager Work Remotely, The Biggest Lie Employers Tell Employees, Why Millennials Need to Focus on Setting Goals, Screw Motivation. You Need Discipline., 7 Surprising Stats on Importance of Internal Communications, Assessing Employee Performance of Developers, Want More Employee Productivity? Figure Out Their "Flow"

#25 - May 2015

Contents: Successful Leaders Keep Their Employees From Leaving, Letting Go of Efficiency Can Accelerate Your Company - Here's How, How to Set and Align Team Goals? Use Hierarchical OKRs., The End of Employee Engagement?, Dustin Moskovitz shares his lessons on leadership, Collaboration Is What Makes a Great Leader, Must-Have Management Techniques for First-Time Managers, 3 Things Why Employee Feedback Fails, Why Performance Management Needs to be Disrupted, The Importance of Benevolent Dictators, 24 Ways to Stay Motivated and Boost Your Productivity as Entrepreneur, 4 Effective Internal Communications Techniques, How Elon Musk Schedules a Typical Week, Building a Remote Culture at Help Scout, Quiz: Stereotypes at Meetings

#24 - April 2015

Contents: Why Employee Feedback Matters and How to Use It, Simplification of Work: The Coming Revolution, How Leaders Make Decisions Using 20/80 Rule, How to Be a Better Leader in One Minute or Less, Art of OKR: How to Set Goals and Stick to Them, Hacking the Performance Evaluation, Using OKRs in a Results-Only Work Environment, New Research on Meeting Up, 4 ways for leaders to keep your feet on the ground, Raise Productivity: Let Employees Work from Home, Google's Strategy for Managing Tech Geniuses, 4 tips from Gallup for engaging employees

#23 - April 2015

Contents: Reinventing Performance Management: How Deloitte Did It, Here's Google's Secret to Hiring the Best People, The Ten Commandments of of Managing Remote Teams, Sears Study Shows OKRs Impact Bottom Line, Building the Culture of Managerial Feedback, 5 Productivity Myths You Should Stop Believing, The Importance of Peer Recognition, Becoming an Irresistible Company, Relearning the Art of Asking Questions, The Full-Stack Employee, Workplace Wellbeing: Ways to Motivate Employees, The Importance of Saying: "Done"

#22 - March 2015

Contents: Declaring the War on Inefficient Meetings, Deloitte.s 2015 Global Human Capital Trends, Tips & Tricks of Managing Millennials, 17% of Employees Would Rather ch Paint Dry, The Magic of Improved OKRs, Meeting Questions From Netlix's HR Rebel, My First 90 Days: Listen, Don't Talk, Why the Workday Is So Fil

#21 - February 2015

Contents: Successful Leaders Uniting Remote Teams, How Steve Jobs Made Meetings Productive, Transform Culture Through Resonant Leadership, 7 Questions To Help Set More Effective Team Goals, The Only Employee Questionnaire You Need, How Great Leaders Motivate Their Teams, How to Appear Smart in Meetings, Time Management Tips from Tech Industry Geeks, How To Become An Idea Machine, An Office For Introverts, Trick Yourself into Tasks You Dread, Things I Think I Know About Management

#20 - February 2015

Contents: 4 Case Studies: Achieving Success With OKRs, Tough Boss or Bad Boss?, Leadership From the Best Football Coach, What is Success?, Yes, Email is Evil, 6 Mistakes When Scheduling Meetings, Focus on People or Results?, Remote Working – 3 Year Retrospective, Training Minds for Better Teambuilding, A Step-by-Step Guide to Engaging Employees, Accomplish More by Commiting to Less, Be a Leader While not a Boss

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#19 - January 2015

Contents: How Agorapulse Keeps it Together With Weekdone, 10,000 Hours with Reid Hoffman from LinkedIn, Why Some Teams Are Smarter Than Others, Achieving Progress at Work, One Week at a Time, The Fundamentals: Objectives & Key Results, Daily Stand-Ups: a Good Tool for a Bad Manager, Not the Manager Type? Maybe You're a "Guru", Quick Guide to Employee Goal-Setting, Benefitting from Skip-Level One-on-Ones, History of the Office Cubicle, 3 Investments in Your Team for 2015, The Future of Work

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#18 - December 2014

Contents: The Future of Enterprise Communications: Predictions for 2015, Big Idea 2015: Trends from Top Influencers, Why Are Danish Employees Happier?, The Google Way of Attacking Problems, The Great Management Divide, Tools for Leaders to Gather Input from Teams, Business Lessons from an Astronaut, Introducing Due Dates for Progress Reporting, 25 Amazing Business Books from 2014, Done: Android App for Weekdone, Time: Your Scarcest Resource, Success Secrets of 20 Biggest Names in Tech, Ban E-mail in the Workplace?, Elon Musk's Leadership Skills, Pivotal Lessons Taught by Steve Jobs, Take Our Team Management Survey, 3 Timeless TED Talks [Video], Differences Between Managers and Leaders [Video]

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#17 - November 2014

Contents: Effective Teamwork and Diversity, Failures, Advice and Success from 14 Entrepreneurs, Leadership Secrets to Building a Happy Millennial Workplace, Growth: Be The Best At Getting Better, Never Interrupt an Engineer, Introducing the Weekdone API, The Smart Way to Stick to Habits, The Cult Of Busy, Do You Lead or Do You Manage?, Atlassian JIRA Reporting is Live, What if Your Team Was Working Remote, Are You a Leader in a Bubble, Startup Leaders on Their Secrets of Success, A Better Approach to Performance Management, 7 Leadership Lessons For CEOs from Formula 1

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#16 - November 2014

Contents: 10 Ways to Stop Talented Employees From Leaving, 80% of Zappos Employees Have No Manager, Process Is Being Told What to Do by Someone Less Informed, Public Enemy's 'Prophets of Rage' About Management, 5 Techniques to Make Teamwork More Manageable, Best Business Books of 2014, 3 Questions to Free You Up to Stop Managing, Leader's Manual: Turning Objectives into Results, Five Simple Ways to Drive Employee Engagement, Jeff Bezos's Top 10 Leadership Lessons, How to Improve Internal Communications in 10 Steps, How to Influence People Who Are in Charge

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#15 - October 2014

Contents: E-book: Turning Objectives into Results, David Ogilvy’s Contrarian Management Advice, Let's Fix It: Kill the Weekly Meeting, Five Ways to Fail at Setting Goals, The Eisenhower Matrix, Peter Thiel: What Works at Work [video], Teach Your Team on Fearless Decisions, Revamp Your Monthly One-to-Ones, 3 Battles Every Leader Loses, Top 10 Disruptions in HR Technology, Motivate Your Employees to Peak Performance [video], 4 Things Millionaires Have in Common

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#14 - October 2014

Contents: How to Give Feedback that Inspires, What's Best: Individual Or Team Leadership?, Getting Your Quiet Employees Talking, Leadership Presence is Earned Over Time, Great CEOs Deal With 'Elephants' First, Be Driven by Goals - Try the OKR's, 5 Business Lessons from the Hells Angels, Leadership Presence is More Than Just Being Present, The Benefits of Being a Questioning Leader, Humility Offers a Competitive Advantage, How to Manager the Biggest Egos, Leaders and Managers – Different but Complementary, 4 Other Approaches to Time Management, The One Question All Leaders Should Ask, The Six Enemies of Collaboration, Leadership Lessons from A First Responder, Ways To Be A More Positive Leader

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#13 - October 2014

Contents: Team Motivation Killers and How to Fix Them, Tom Peters on Leading the 21st-century Organization, David Copperfield: What Entrepreneurs Can Learn from Magic, Why Founders Should Care about Happiness, Make Employees Love Progress Reporting, Cascading Your Objectives and Key Results, Lack of Transparency Kills Your Team, Steve Jobs' Most Valuable Advice [video], Does Unlimited Vacation Really Work?, 100+ People: How to Work Like a Startup, 10 Ways to Stop Employees from Leaving, 11 Things Very Effective Managers Do, Is Your High Performer Ready to Be a Manager?, 50 Rules to Lead the Field, How enterprises prepare for the future of work

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#12 - October 2014

Contents: Top 15 Team Leadership Blogs, LinkedIn CEO on Doubt and Mistakes Made, How ABC Employees Know the Beat of the Team, Try Implementing Flexible Work Options, The Role of Workplace Optimism, Ten Leadership Theories in Five Minutes, The Leadership Dilemma: Direct or Empathetic, Coaching Questions Leaders Need to Ask, A Conference Call in Real Life, How CEO's Waste 70% of Their Time, How to See Your Leadership Reality, 5 Best Books on Leadership, John Cleese on Stupidity, 5 Mistakes to Avoid in One-on-Ones, Bringing Employees to Decision-making Table

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#11 - September 2014

Contents: Improve Your Next Team Meeting, It's Perfectly OK Not to Be a Manager, Work for 52 Minutes, Rest for 17, 3 Ways to Drive Sales Rep Motivation, Improvements New Leaders Bring, Quizzes to Test Your Business Skills, Be a Public-Speaking Rock Star, Open Office or Private Space? Both!, Game-Changing Ideas from Peter Thiel, Leadership Principles of Richard Branson, The Art of Meaningful Meetings, New Models: How Leadership is Changing, 30 Criteria for an Effective Team Meeting, Become a Leader with a Personal Mission, Ways to Crush Distributed Team Friction, 5 Ways to Be a Better Boss, Great Leaders Think Simply, Leadership is About to Get More Uncomfortable

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#10 - September 2014

Contents: Making Distributed Teamwork a Success, How To Grow A Business To $100 Million, Want to Be a Great Leader? Act Weirder, Why Give Employees Free Time at Work?, The Lost Art of Candor in the Workplace, What People Really Think of Their Managers, Kevin Kruse on Employee Engagement, 6 Steps to Fewer and Shorter Meetings, How to Cancel a Meeting the Right Way, You Need to Delegate, 10 Things The Best Leaders Never Say, 4 Simple Ways to Build New Work Habits, What Your Team Can Teach You on Leadership, Things Happy Business Owners Do Differently, Death to the Meeting: You Only Need Two a Year

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#9 - August 2014

Contents: One Powerful Technique to Amplify Team Success, Things Bosses Never Tell Employees, but Should, 10 Questions to Ask Your Employees Right Now, How to Build a More Positive Workplace, Management intuition for the next 50 years, Science: How to Motivate People, Why is Employee Recognition Such a Problem?, Hiring a Great Startup COOHow Smartest People Prioritize Their Days, Enhance Basecamp with a Visual Dashboard, 7 Traits of Likeable CEO's, Why Every Employee Should Do Customer Support, Design Is Not Art, Why Introverts Can Be Great Leaders, Culture - The Leadership Mirror, Learn or Die

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#8 - August 2014

Contents: Avoid These 10 Distractions to Get Work Done, Carly Fiorina on Leadership and Unlocking Human Potential, Jacob Morgan: 5 Trends Shaping The Future Of Work, Tech Industry's Obsession with Burning Man, Creative Questions to Ask Your Team, Modern Entrepreneurs Need To Learn How To Write, Why Meetings Should Be Few and Far Between, Are you praising your people frequently enough?, Are You Listening Intentionally?, Poor Sleep Is Killing You And Your Career , Cheezburger’s Ben Huh Top Quotes for Entrepreneurs, Today's Most Satisfied Employees Demand These 4 Things

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#7 - August 2014

Contents: 10 Ways to Improve Internal Communications [infographic slides], 8 Leadership Lessons from Steve Ballmer, How to Tell Your Boss is Mad?, Here's How Meetings are Held Around the Globe, Five organisations saying goodbye to the boss, The LinkedIn Report on Tech Entrepreneurship, Nonviolent Communication Principles for Your Team, Is Hope A Leadership Trait?, 7 Insanely Rich Founders Share Their Best Business Advice, Why the best salespeople don't negotiate, The Internal Office Communications Clash, 10 Leadership Lessons from a Combat Logistician

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#6 - August 2014

Contents: 10 ways to stronger, more successful teams [infographic], Build a tower, build a team [TED video] , You're in New York, Your Team Is in Prague, How to Win Life - Lessons From My 20s, The Secret to Great Employee Communications, Improve Your Team Meetings, Shy Leaders' Success Guide, Asana Reporting Got Even Better, Five Distinct Startup Entrepreneur Types, 62 Interview Questions People Love, The Ways We Talk About Leadership, When 'Work Like a Network' Won't Work

#5 - August 2014

Contents: Lead smarter - lead like a pro, Richard Branson on Increasing Employee Engagement, Inside Apple's Secret Internal Training Program, 6 Steps to Efficient Reporting [gifographic], Learn the Scandinavian Model of Success, Leadership Lessons From the Kitchen, How Google Sets Goals with OKR's, All the Startup Advice You Read is Wrong, How to Keep Employees Using Social Software

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#4 - July 2014

Contents: The Perfect Progress Report Process, Unleashing the Power in Team Collaboration, Become the Leader Your Team Needs, Typical OKR Mistakes, Fighting Exhaustion with Delegation, Lack of Slack = Lack of Innovation, Barry Schuler Talks About Most Important Skill, Inspiration to Fuel You Up, 8 Complaints Your Team Has About You, Specificity in Feedback Reduces Conflict

#3 - July 2014

Contents: How Google, LinkedIn and Twitter manage their goals, Quantified Self: Meet the Quantified Employee, What Determines Employee Satisfaction?, Tricks to Appear Exceptionally Smart During Meetings, CEO Challenge 2014 Results: be a Great Employer, Reserve An Hour A Month For 1:1's, Google Ventures' Secret to Productive Meetings, How Leaders Can Find Their Mojo, Achieving Goals, One-Step-at-a-Time, Good Things Come to the Happy Man

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#2 - June 2014

Contents: Keeping Your Team Focused This Summer, The Art of the OKR, The World's Coolest Offices, Edison's Midnight Lunches with Team, Conquer the World, Even When Continents Apart, The Monty Python Guide to Better Leadership, Practice Seeing to be a Better Leader, Avoid the Feedback Sandwich, Is Your Team Able to Create a Symphony?

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#1 - June 2014

Contents:strongConquer the tipping point in employee engagement, The Failure of Traditional Performance Reviews, Make your bed. Change the world., Show Some Love: Why It Pays to Praise, 23 Tools to Make Feedback Meaningful, How to Create Epic Success, Be Like President Eisenhower

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