“Every team in the world is capable of accomplishing bigger goals… software could help empower them to drive work forward with more ease, clarity, and accountability.” – Asana co-founders There are a handful of common workplace struggles that plague almost every industry. Emails pile up. Status meetings are unproductive. Teammates working on the same project…
How Box Conquered the Enterprise and Became a $1.7 Billion Company in a Decade
The myth of the college student who drops out to create the world’s next technological innovation in their garage is one of Silicon Valley’s most well-worn tropes. Yet every few years, a visionary young entrepreneur emerges who genuinely does change the world with their startup. Aaron Levie, co-founder and CEO of Box, is one such…
How GitHub Democratized Coding, Built a $2 Billion Business, and Found a New Home at Microsoft
When Tom Preston-Werner, Chris Wanstrath, and PJ Hyett got together in 2008 to collaborate on a project, the three friends fully intended for their side hustle to be just that—a weekend project, and nothing more. But it didn’t take long for them to realize that their idea was potentially much bigger than they’d realized. Their…
The Most Important Turning Points in Microsoft’s History
With the possible exception of the earliest pioneers of Silicon Valley, such as IBM, Xerox, and Bell Labs, it’s hard to think of a company that has had a more profound, lasting impact on the world of technology than Microsoft. However, despite its role in fundamentally shaping the landscape of modern computing, Microsoft has an…
Evernote vs OneNote: The Best Note-taking App in 2019
We have more information to remember than ever before. Fortunately, we have more tools to help us remember things than ever before, too––but choosing a note-taking tool isn’t as simple as it sounds. Most note-taking apps do the same things: Save and organize digital notes Search saved notes, clippings, and files Sync across multiple devices…
How Notion Is Going After Atlassian and Why It Just Might Win
Admitting a mistake can be incredibly difficult for some founders. They become so invested in proving the validity of their original idea that their businesses fail. Not every founder falls into this trap but many do. Ivan Zhao, co-founder of Notion, found himself in this exact position in 2015. Having launched a no-code tool, Zhao…
The 5 Best G Suite CRMs to Close More Deals
Your CRM should get you more deals, not more trouble. Most CRMs are built to handle the needs of dozens, even hundreds of sales reps. For a small business, that’s overkill. There are way too many features and the CRM ends up being more trouble than it’s worth. It doesn’t have to be like that.…
How to Complete a Great Postmortem Analysis Reliably
The quality of a postmortem rests entirely on the analysis. Get the analysis right and teams will consistently improve on every project. Do the analysis wrong and teams get stuck in an endless treadmill, repeating the same mistakes. When I’ve asked folks on my team to complete the analysis part of a post-mortem, I get…
10 Tricks to Make Your Post-Mortems Enjoyable and Useful
Post-mortems don’t have a to be a dreary round of busy-work. For me, post-mortems are the most valuable process that I have my teams do. Every time that we do a post-mortem round, the team gets more motivated, change accelerates, and any metric of our choosing starts to improve. If that sounds like a magical…
Everything You Need To Know About G Suite for Education
Some types of organization can get access to G Suite for free. Educational institutions have the option to sign up for the free G Suite for Education plan. What is G Suite for Education? Once known as Google Apps for Education, G Suite for Education is the standard suite of Google productivity apps and administration…
