We Think About Everything We Do

Working from home isn’t the same as working in an office. The main difference? An office is all about people doing their jobs. At home? You’re dealing with a kid demanding lunch, a spouse trying...

Remember when we used to pop into co-workers’ offices for a quick chat or to try out an idea? When a brainstorming session could be done spontaneously? Now we need to plan a meeting to make a plan...

Keeping any project on time, on budget, and on track is a complicated job. Add a remote team to the equation and you’ve ratcheted up the complexity. There’s so much to think about, so much to do,...

FIRE! Everybody knows what a fire drill is. You’ve participated in dozens of them in your life, I’ll bet. There’s a pattern. Usually, some joker or malcontent pulls an alarm lever, resulting in a...

What is a QBR? Let’s start by thinking about what they are not. Most people might think a quarterly business review (QBR) is a simple...

Remember “Knock-Knock” jokes? Someone goes, “Knock-Knock,” and you go, “Who’s there?” And the other person answers with, let’s say, “Hike.” You say, “Hike who?” Then the other person says, “I...

When your team goes virtual for good, it’s harder for it to work cohesively as a unit. As I write this it may be too soon to tell, but I believe a sea change is happening in the corporate world....

Have you ever played the game “Telephone?” It’s where a group of people line up and the person on the one end whispers something to whoever’s next to them. That person then turns and whispers what...

When your entire team is working from home, normal ways of catching up on projects go out the door. When you were all working at an office, it was easy to run into Mary from Accounting in the...

It’s happened. The Zoom revolution is upon us. In 2020, everyone from CEOs to celebrities, everything from book clubs to board meetings, went virtual. Suddenly, we were all forced to reckon...