The world is evolving, and so are we. With the pivot to remote work and the rising demand for an all-in-one collaboration platform, Taskade has become an essential tool for thousands of teams across the globe. Each day, weâve been helping you and fellow Taskaders get work done remotely, and we love it! Now is the time for us to take the next step in our journey, together. Starting today,…
Shuffling papers, peeking into folders, digging through inboxes⊠Sounds familiar? If your remote team has a knack for disorganization, we have a solution. With a collaborative, single source of truth (SSOT) they wonât miss a thing, ever again. In 2019, Citrix and The Economist ran a collaborative survey âThe Experience of Work.â Among the 1,145 business executives, 47% said that ease of access to business information is the key driver…
Who wouldâve thought the transition to remote work would carry over the nuisance of daily meetings? Well, thanks to VoIP and video conferencing tools, our love-hate relationship with daily (weekly, monthlyâŠ) scrums continue. Luckily, quick sync-up meetings are here to save the day. In a now-famous email to Tesla employees, Elon Musk shared his formula for effective meetings. According to Musk, they should be small, short, and scarce. Teams should…
Last year at our Y Combinator demo day presentation, we set out on a journey to make Taskade a breath of fresh air in the team collaboration space. We created a remote-first productivity tool that would enable teams to collaborate in real-time without friction. We wanted to build a remote-first productivity tool, for ourselves and other distributed teams like us, in one unified workspace. Fast-forward to today, our priorities havenât…
Terry Crews doesnât check his email before hitting the gym, but itâs a safe bet that everyone else does. Over the course of almost 50 years (!), email has become a staple in our professional lives. Now that the modern workplace pivots to remote, itâs about time we challenged the status quo: Does @mailto belong in remote workflows? đ€ If youâre like most knowledge workers, chances are you have a…
Do you think you can juggle multiple tasks and not flop any of them? Well, letâs just say that the myth of multitasking was busted a long time ago. But donât worry, you can still bet on *remote* cross-functional teams that are up for the task (or two). đïž Regardless if you are a freelancer or work as part of a remote team, some tasks and projects are just too…
Written communication is going through a renaissance of sorts. With the rise of remote work, the ability to express thoughts in a clear and organized manner is in high demand. But while asynchronous communication these days is mostly about chat, emails and texts, thereâs another writing skill you should master â how to write a memo. Memos (memorandums for short) arenât only a domain of high-profile CEOs. Theyâre a great,…
Remember the 1992 Glengarry Glen Ross scene where Alec Baldwinâs character schools the sales team on the principles of Always Be Closing (ABC)? Thatâs some A-level mentoring right there. Wouldnât it be cool if fully distributed teams could get a *similar* learning experience through remote mentoring sessions? đ€ Whatâs Remote Mentoring? đ Mentoring: employee training system under which a senior or more experienced individual (the mentor) is assigned to act…
Team conflicts happen, whether itâs a simple difference of opinion, misalignment, or a squabble over project details, disagreements happen in all types of organizations. But dealing with team conflicts remotely⊠thatâs a whole new type of challenge. đ± Discord in a remote workplace is tricky to spot, and a heck of a challenge to deescalate, once it goes past a certain point. After all, remote employees (and managers) canât just…
The recent Spotify x Joe Rogan deal made one thing clear: Spotify is going for gold of the podcasting industry. While the companyâs chain of acquisitions is part of a well-thought-out business model, the Swedish music streaming service didnât start as the most orderly bunch. Back in 2012, Spotify sported an experimental and highly volatile organizational approach that came to be known as the “Spotify model.” In today’s article, weâre…
Have you come here looking for knowledge? đ§ Thatâs perfect timing as weâre just about to take a closer look at another interesting system for collecting and organizing information. A brainchild of German sociologist Niklas Luhmann, the Zettelkasten method can make you (and your team) smarter, more productive, and effective at work. While the Zettelkasten was originally created to support Luhmannâs scientific research, we decided to look at it from…
When Thoreau moved into his Walden cabin in 1845, he left most of his possessions behind. Had he lived today, heâd have probably dumped his smartphone and smartwatch too and embraced the way of digital minimalism. Whatâs digital minimalism? Why is it good for you? Let’s find out! đĄ Defining Digital Minimalism Did you know that the average smartphone userâwink winkâchecks their phone 58 times a day? According to RescueTimeâs study, the…
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