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Guides and resources to help you and your team navigate modern work
The Thoughtful Leader's Guide to Managing a Remote Team
Ever been on a great distributed or remote team before? Everyone gets along, solid products are built and big challenges are faced head-on. You enjoy the day-to-day, learn a ton and routinely feel a warm sense of accomplishment. You even perk up for business-related emails...

Henry Poydar
June 5, 2021
19 minute readThe Essential Guide to Tuning Slack for Team Productivity
Let’s face it - Slack can be too noisy. Through my own personal quest to optimize my use of Slack I discovered there are many settings and adjustments you can play with to fine tune Slack so that it’s still very useful, but not as...

Henry Poydar
January 4, 2022
13 minute readThe Keys to a Successful Project - Simple Guidelines for Project Planners and Managers
Thanks for checking out our guide on the keys to managing a successful project. We’ll lay out the fundamental keys to running a successful software project and provide you with the techniques to use in your own work. Topics covered in this guide: Critical Questions Scheduling...

Michael Karampalas
January 3, 2022
25 minute read
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