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Lionel Valdellon

Lionel Valdellon

Lionel is a former Content Marketing Manager of Wrike. He is also a blogger since 1997, a productivity enthusiast, a project management newbie, a musician and producer of electronic downtempo music, a father of three, and a husband of one.

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Top 5 Product Design Blogs to Follow
Productivity 5 min read

Top 5 Product Design Blogs to Follow

When you talk about product design, you're talking about the numerous processes involved in creating a product — whether physical or digital. It must have functionality that answers a target market's specific needs, and it must have an aesthetically pleasing form. It's a formula that Apple has used with much success. But where does one find

Should Founders Be More Transparent? (Work Management Roundup)
Leadership 3 min read

Should Founders Be More Transparent? (Work Management Roundup)

Welcome back to the weekly Work Management Roundup, where we collect and curate the week's best reads in productivity, management, and work. This week, we lead off with an interesting story about one founder's risky move in the face of a potential acquisition. He made his acquisition process public and shared crucial lessons that other entrepreneurs can now benefit from. But it was a risk. Is this kind of transparency worth it? You be the judge.

Why Every Company Needs a Culture of Collaboration
Collaboration 3 min read

Why Every Company Needs a Culture of Collaboration

Boiled down to its very essence, collaboration can be defined as a TEAM engaging in TASKS to reach shared TARGETS. It's one of those buzzwords that's been overused, with every software startup spouting it in marketing collateral, pitch decks, and social media channels. But the reason why it's a staple in conversations is because, without

51 Chrome Browser Extensions to Amplify Your Productivity
Productivity 10 min read

51 Chrome Browser Extensions to Amplify Your Productivity

As more and more knowledge work gets done within a browser, and more work tools migrate to the convenience of the cloud, it makes sense to enhance your browser with extensions​ that help you get work done faster. We've listed these 51 extensions for Google Chrome that will help amplify your productivity.

How to Use Flipboard to Stay on Top of Your Competition and Your Industry
Marketing 5 min read

How to Use Flipboard to Stay on Top of Your Competition and Your Industry

Because we're all busy all the time, it almost becomes a chore to seek out news online. And yet it's vital that everyone — executives and managers most of all — stay on top of their industry's headlines in order to monitor the competition. Information is key. The problem is your Facebook feed is dominated by

Why We Complain About Work & How To Stop
Productivity 7 min read

Why We Complain About Work & How To Stop

Researchers say we complain about 15 to 30 times a day, and a lot of those complaints are about our job. Why do we complain about work? Let's take a look at what complaining is, why you do it, and how to get past it to lead a more positive life.

How Do You Hire the Best People? (Work Management Roundup)
Leadership 3 min read

How Do You Hire the Best People? (Work Management Roundup)

Welcome back to the weekly Work Management Roundup where we bring you the week's best reads in business, work, productivity, and management. This week, we take a look at startup hiring and how the search for the best is fraught with the best intentions but because we use the same old playbook, we often overlook

How to Create a Wiki Knowledge Base Using Wrike
News 3 min read

How to Create a Wiki Knowledge Base Using Wrike

We've recently been perfecting the way we house and organize documents so that our own sales team can quickly find PDFs and presentations when they're talking to people interested in Wrike. Most companies turn to a mix of knowledge bases, wikis, and content repositories, but nothing beats the simplicity of keeping everything in one place

How to Counter the Top 3 Objections to Cloud-Based Project Management
Project Management 3 min read

How to Counter the Top 3 Objections to Cloud-Based Project Management

There are many reasons for the all-too-common resistance to cloud-based project management software. But we think each objection has a real solution on the other side. Let’s take a look.

Customer's Adoption Tip: Customize Your Own Wrike Manual
Wrike Tips 5 min read

Customer's Adoption Tip: Customize Your Own Wrike Manual

When adopting a new tool like Wrike, it helps to create a digestible document that can help your team understand the process and the benefits of using the tool. This is exactly what Lightspeed POS did. Find out how their customized "manual" helped.

11 Internet of Things Startups to Watch  (Infographic)
Marketing 3 min read

11 "Internet of Things" Startups to Watch (Infographic)

It's poised to become the largest device market in the world. One research group estimates that by 2019, it will be more than double the size of the smartphone, PC, tablet, connected car, and wearable markets combined.  Samsung even pledged a funding pool of more than $100 million for startups that want to help build the

How to Automate Marketing Project Creation with Duplication
Marketing 3 min read

How to Automate Marketing Project Creation with Duplication

It's Friday afternoon and a new project has just landed in your lap: a new banner for SXSW must be submitted by Tuesday, and yet you're still dealing with your backlog of work from this week. To get the banner done quickly, you'll probably have to copy and paste all the information from the tasks

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