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Product Review: WorkBoard
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Product Review: WorkBoard

Public service announcement: we’re halfway through the year (!), which means you’ve got about six months to dust off your goals and rightsize and refresh your OKRs for Q3. If you’re thinking about using a software solution for OKR management, WorkBoard is a potential option.

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Product Review: Asana
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Product Review: Asana

Asana’s tagline is to “work on big ideas, without the busywork.” How much latent productivity could you unlock if knowledge workers spent more time on their area of expertise rather than on the mechanics of managing and reporting on their personal workloads? This is where Asana seeks to add value.

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When to Say No to Things at Work
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When to Say No to Things at Work

For the first five to ten years of your career, you should say yes. To everything. You should say yes so much that you’ll want to throw up from saying yes. Once you achieve a certain career threshold, you need to shift from saying yes to saying no. And, if you thought saying yes was hard, it’s nothing compared with the difficulty of saying no.

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How to Demystify the Promotion Process
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How to Demystify the Promotion Process

You know you’re ready for a promotion. But, somehow you don’t have the title. Short of being the first one online in the morning and the last one offline at night, how do you demonstrate your value to the business? I’d recommend pursuing a few specific actions to help demystify the promotion process.

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Product Review: Hive
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Product Review: Hive

Hive is productivity and collaboration software that is famously used by teams at world-class companies ranging from Google to Starbucks to Toyota to IBM. As a productivity and community building enthusiast, Hive was on my list of products to try.

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Doing More of What You Love
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Doing More of What You Love

As long as most of your job description falls into the “love” or “like” category, then you’ve got it pretty good in my book. For those parts that you dislike, there may be ways to minimize those activities and reshape your role to cater more to your strengths and interests.

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My Product Journey
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My Product Journey

I still loved project management, but I wanted to diversify my skills to better position myself in a changing market. Deepening my product management skills required a lengthy process of discovery and a fair amount of hard work. Here are the steps I followed.

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Product Review: Roadmunk
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Product Review: Roadmunk

Roadmunk is a roadmapping software designed to fill a gap left by many popular project management products—the ability to communicate strategy to an executive audience. I’ve faced this challenge many times in my career when using the work management products commonly available in an office environment.

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