The Secret to Being a Great Boss (Work Management Roundup)
We're back with the Work Management Roundup after last week's all-too-brief Thanksgiving break. Which means we've collected a number of links from the past week and a half — good reads which should get you back on the productivity track. Read on! Radical Candor — The Surprising Secret to Being a Good Boss (First Round): Over
5 Ways Your Perfectionism is Killing Your Business
As a business owner, having perfectionist tendencies can push you to go the extra mile. Yet the desire to excel and the desire to be perfect are two separate outlooks that business owners and leaders often confuse. While having high standards and goals is a profitable business strategy, and a great way to motivate employees, perfectionism
Wrike's CEO Analyzes the Lessons to Learn from Facebook in Business Collaboration
In this article, Andrew highlights the lessons that the business collaboration space can learn from Facebook and discusses why the “work graph,” our own unique concept, has the potential to turn us all into project management and collaboration rock stars. We built Wrike with this vision - to connect work for thousands of people -
Leadership Blind Spot: Why a Lack of Cultural Intelligence Holds You Back
When you're at work, you probably think about your colleagues' IQ (Intelligence Quotient), or how traditionally smart they are. You might even think about their EQ (Emotional Quotient), or how well they deal with and respond to emotions when communicating. With international expansion, there arises another factor to consider — one that might possibly take priority
How to Find Your Power as an Introvert Leader: Top Tips
Many people falsely believe that extroverted individuals are the most successful leaders. But in fact, both introverts and extroverts have equal opportunity to achieve greatness in the workplace. An introvert leader can guide, mentor, make important decisions, and network just as well as an extrovert leader. Even though their style is different, introverted leaders have
5 Ways to Keep Leadership Involved Without Slowing Your Process
Leadership is busy. When it comes time to get their input on a project, they often either lack enough previous knowledge to weigh in (without multiple hold-up questions) or take too long to complete their action step. This delays the project’s end date and can be incredibly frustrating for the team members who are involved in the project. They feel like they’re in a holding pattern and worse yet, may have to go back and make aggressive changes quickly when leadership finally weighs in.
Join Wrike CEO Andrew Filev for a Webinar on Building Virtual Teams
We're excited to announce that our CEO Andrew Filev will be the guest panelist on the upcoming webinar "How To Build Effective Virtual Teams For Startups" hosted by The Founder Institute. Andrew will share his experience from years of getting big results from virtual teams in fast growing businesses. Founder Institute CEO Adeo Ressi is hosting
3 Easy Ways to Cut Costs and Keep Your Business Lean
"When in doubt, simplify." ― Eric Ries, The Lean Startup. Small businesses are always pushing to drive profits and increase sales, but few fledgling firms truly know the ins and outs of cutting costs to maximize profits. Here are three ways you can effectively cut costs for your small business while keeping operations running smoothly. 1.
6 Traits of Successful CMOs
CMOs are under tremendous pressure to deliver, and the challenge is proving difficult to face. According to The Wall Street Journal, average CMO tenure is currently just 42 months — down a full six months over the last two years. In the UK, the average tenure of CMOs is only 18 months. It's by far the shortest in the C-suite: CEOs average 7.2 years, for example, and CFOs 5.7 years.
3 Lessons on High-Performing Teams from TED Talks
If you were handed 20 sticks of uncooked spaghetti, 1 yard of masking tape, 1 yard of string, and 1 marshmallow and then told to build a tower with the marshmallow at the top, what would you do? Believe it or not, this exercise gives us a lot of insight into building high-performance teams. During
Why Customer Retention Is More Important Than New Revenue
Customer retention is key to boosting revenue, reducing business costs, and improving customer feedback. Read more to discover strategies and solutions on how to improve, measure, and calculate your business' customer retention and, as a result, customer satisfaction.
Understanding the 5 Different Leadership Styles
Here's an infographic explaining the 5 most general leadership styles, each with a famous leader known for that style, and each listing strengths and weaknesses. Once you figure out which style your manager uses, it just might make it easier to improve your working relationship with him or her.
Rolling With the Punches: How Managers Overcome Their Anxieties of Change
If you find yourself huffing and puffing into a paper bag every time you need to switch up a process, this advice is for you. Let’s dive into why you feel hesitant about those changes—and how you can overcome those nerves.
4 Skills Managers Will Need to Learn in the Next Decade
The fundamentals of leadership haven't changed. You lead by example, you inspire team members to do their very best work, you communicate well and often. However, the circumstances surrounding our work are constantly changing. Remote/global workforces, offshore outsourcing, and an unrelenting tide of technology and tools have changed the way we work, and the skills
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.
