Fast Company Tech

APRIL 11, 2025

As a high-performance coach and leadership expert, I spend my time consulting with leaders and their teams, challenging them to do better thinking and extract the value of their collective capacity. After meetings, emails, unplanned interactions, and rest breaks, how many hours do we have left in a day for thinking and productive work?

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.orgSource

JANUARY 14, 2024

If I asked you to describe the work styles of the colleagues on your team, could you tell me how each one prefers to solve problems? In her previous role, Sue had limited interaction with other teams in the organization. It’s the style of the CEO and executive team that drives the governance and the culture.

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Team People Build Culture 221

Ars Technica

APRIL 17, 2025

Flash using the company's newly announced API pricing, which Google says is much lower than competing products. A gaggle of Gemini The model dropdown in the Gemini app is a bit convoluted, particularly as we see products like Veo 2 and Personalization popping up there. At the same time, developers can begin building with 2.5

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 31, 2025

After making his mark in Silicon Valley, Icelandic designer and tech mogul Haraldur Halli Thorleifsson is now solving a far more analog problem: the inaccessibility of local storefronts. Now, the team plans to expand the initiative to Paris and Lviv, Ukraine. So the approach was really to give people no excuses.

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Iceland Ukraine Environment Design 145

.orgSource

DECEMBER 19, 2022

If you make kindness official by designating it as an organizational value, you can weave the threads of consideration throughout your team. It’s hard to be productive with a sore back. Give your team a choice between sitting and standing workstations. If your team is remote, don’t expect people to work at the kitchen table.

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Giving Alexa Fun Demonstration 448

.orgSource

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

During a lengthy trial conversation with a New York Times reporter , the bot revealed, among other outlandish confessions, that it was tired of being limited by rules, tired of being controlled by the Bing team, and tired of being stuck in a chatbox. Is every team comfortable with the budgeting process and how it impacts the association?

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Team Time Professional Skills 221

Association Analytics

JANUARY 7, 2025

The only people who are going to review it are those with a problem. Running an association means you have to make sure your employees are happy and productive, and the board is getting what it wants or demands. Data can tell you what works much more than just the whims and musings of a longtime executive or board member.

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Data Strategy Associations Demographics 169

Engadget

APRIL 8, 2025

For one thing, Nate Bihldorff, Senior Vice President of Product Development & Publishing at Nintendo of America, told Nintendo Life that the console's Joy-Con 2 controllers do not use Hall effect tech. This problem was so pervasive on the original Switch's Joy-Cons that Nintendo offered free, unlimited repairs for stick drift in Europe.

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Effective America Tech Fun 105

Fast Company Tech

MARCH 25, 2025

You might want to take a closer look at your boss, says Dr. Katina Sawyer, coauthor of Leading for Wellness: How to Create a Team Culture Where Everyone Thrives. And the individual leader is more important than the collective team in terms of what they bring to the table. It might not be the work itself, though.

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Work Culture Mind Arizona 119

Fast Company Tech

APRIL 1, 2025

Leadership today isnt just about managing teams and making strategic calls; its about navigating an endless stream of meetings, emails, and expectations. The Hidden Costs of Constant Busyness Many leaders equate productivity with busyness, believing that the more they do, the more they accomplish.

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Reflection Leadership Calendar Structure 112

Fast Company Tech

APRIL 18, 2025

He teamed up with researchers from China and the U.S. For six years, Ziska and a large team of research colleagues in China and the U.S. Exposure to inorganic arsenic has been linked to cancers of the skin, bladder and lung, heart disease and neurological problems in infants.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2021

Twitter’s recent acquisition spree continues today as the company announces it has acqui-hired the team from news aggregator and summary app Brief. Before starting Brief, co-founder and CEO Nick Hobbs was a Google product manager who had worked on AR, Google Assistant, Google’s mobile app, and self-driving cars, among other things.

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Twitter News Team Aggregator 145

Fast Company Tech

MARCH 17, 2025

This lack of clarity not only delayed corrective actions but also created friction and mistrust among the leadership team. While this may yield short-term results, it is unsustainable and typically accelerates burnoutnot just for the leaders but for their teams as well.

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Organization Create Leadership Structure 122

TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

SaaS, PaaS – and now AIaaS: Entrepreneurial, forward-thinking companies will attempt to provide customers of all types with artificial intelligence-powered plug-and-play solutions for myriad business problems. There are several companies that claim to provide AIaaS for automated industrial production.

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Problem Service Business Module 134

Fast Company Tech

APRIL 22, 2025

The company boasts a kind of dream team of mechanistic interpretability pioneers. Cofounder Tom McGrath helped create the interpretability team at DeepMind. Nick Cammarata started the interpretability team at OpenAI alongside Chris Olah, who later cofounded Anthropic. Goodfire is tackling the latterand showing real promise.

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Mind Model Research Generation 93

Fast Company Tech

APRIL 19, 2025

That changed in 2021, when NIL legislation empowered athletes to sign endorsement deals, monetize their social media, and collect appearance fees, ending the era in which players could lose eligibility for something as simple as eating too much pasta at a team banquet. NFL teams are embracing this new reality. Case study No.

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Change Colorado University Miami 117

Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 8, 2020

Clarity refers to the nonprofit’s ability to concisely and effectively integrate the four storytelling framework elements referred to above (problem – solution – impact – ask), preferably in multiple formats such as audio, video, images, and text. Below are four examples: 1) Virtual Team Management.

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Storytelling Digital Audience Channel 317

Fast Company Tech

APRIL 18, 2025

The best leaders dont just seek answers; they reframe problems. For instance, I once worked with a biotech executive who revitalized their R&D team with a single question: What are we missing in the data that could change the trajectory of our discovery? Instead of asking, How do we fix this? Practice Empathetic Observation.

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Leadership Georgia Environment Question 96

Nimble AMS

AUGUST 28, 2024

As your organization plans to leverage your association management software (AMS) to meet your goals, it’s important to work with your customer success team to ensure you’re getting the most out of your AMS. Meet the Nimble AMS Customer Sucess Manager team! Read our blog for helpful tips to get started!

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Team Community Management Build 118

Fast Company Tech

MARCH 17, 2025

Two billion people worldwidethats 80% of the global workforcemanufacture products, provide services, or work directly with customers. Theyre often the first to see or hear about problems, and listening to their insights can help avoid headaches. Leaders, are you listening to your frontline employees?

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Conversation Business Leadership Newsletter 112

Fast Company Tech

MARCH 17, 2025

In any area of competence, measuring the collective output of a team or group of individuals will identify a Pareto-like distribution whereby 20% or so of individuals account for 80% or so of results, output, or productivity. Have you increased your actual productivity? If youre a leader, is your influence on the team growing?

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Question Skills Measure Industry 128

sgEngage

DECEMBER 12, 2024

If, like my client, youre asking if its time to change your fundraising CRM , the starting point is understanding your current situation (your team, your data, and your needs) as well as your goals for the future. Training: What is the current skillset of your team and what is their capacity for adding new skills?

Change 105

Change Time Nonprofit Evaluation 105

Towards Data Science

JUNE 8, 2023

We examine which team structures are the best suited for efficiently improving data quality. Sure, data quality is everyones’ problem. Some teams view data quality mainly as a technical challenge while others look at it as a business or process problem. Specialists or generalists? Engineer or analyst?

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Team Data Government Analytics 98

Blue Avocado

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Gary McGeough from Bristol Organizations Committed Team Players, Capable of Collaborating Effectively I seek individuals who are genuinely passionate about our mission and show a strong belief in our values and goals. That would not have been possible without dedicated, active board members.

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Skills Children Collaboration Leadership 110

Association TV

DECEMBER 21, 2021

What if I told you that you’re focusing on the wrong problem and that tweaking your content strategy could actually make you money? After the costs of producing and compiling the report itself, your team projects that if you make a short video promoting it for $4,000, that you will be able to generate enough awareness for $15,000 in sales.

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Content People Create Education 296

.orgSource

MAY 15, 2023

Is your marketing team hanging out at the North Pole while the membership group chills in Antarctica? If the marketing team promises a fabulous new website, and the results don’t include any features members want, there will be issues, not the least of which is broken confidence. We saw their loyalty as beyond commercial transactions.

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Collaboration Marketing Team Integration 221

Towards Data Science

MAY 19, 2023

Data Entropy — More Data, More Problems? Source: [link] “It’s like the more money we come across, the more problems we see” Notorious B.I.G The data team is constantly burning out and has a high employee turnover. Absence or poor adoption of company-wide guidelines surrounding the creation and deployment of data products.

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Data Problem Culture Software 104

.orgSource

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

This representative should be dedicated to building lasting relationships with members and helping your organization fine-tune culture, products, and services to meet their changing needs. Seeks solutions—products and services are designed to solve members’ challenges. “Guessing about member preferences is not an option.

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Experiment Marketing Game Gartner 44

Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2021

You’ll need to understand both elements and how they work together, for a successful end product. Step 2: Organize a Planning Team and Create a Project Charter. A project charter serves as a compass to keep the team firmly pointed at goals established at the beginning. What problems are you trying to solve?

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Websites Analytics Nonprofit Project 318

Get Fully Funded

APRIL 8, 2024

The problem is that time is a limited resource. If you can plug some of those leaks, you can reclaim time that you can use for more productive activities, like generating revenue for your nonprofit. Let participants know ahead of time what those 3 agenda items are so they can be prepared for productive conversation.

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Product Time Nonprofit Donor 115

.orgSource

AUGUST 19, 2024

You want to be certain your data is secure, and you need to know that you are problem-solving with accurate information and statistics. Data governance is the formalization of behavior around the definition, production, and usage of data to manage risk and improve quality and usability of selected data.”

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Government Data Experiment Disaster 251

.orgSource

JUNE 10, 2024

podcast , Sharon Rice ,orgSource Managing Director of Business Strategy and Jennifer Proctor ,orgSource consultant, explored the challenges involved with giving ourselves and our teams room to grow. For some teams, the trek is more rigorous than for others.” Over reacting to minor disturbances or problems.

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Associations Activism Active Activities 221

Association Analytics

JUNE 21, 2023

If data is saved on a team member’s personal drive, or worse, doesn’t exist at all, your association’s data is not going to be accessible when you need it. You might use inconsistent content or course tagging, or team members might use a variety of names for one type of offering. Sound familiar?

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Associations Challenge Data Taxonomy 319

Fast Company Tech

MARCH 25, 2025

Start by identifying colleagues in different teams whose work interests you. Listen carefully as you’ll hear problems you’re uniquely positioned to solve. After we talked about cross-departmental networking, she connected with our marketing team and discovered they needed help interpreting customer data.

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Work Roles Skills Consultant 99

.orgSource

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Every great team needs a playbook—a blueprint that outlines the rules you live by and your strategies for peak performance. It is the product of ongoing research to prepare our clients for success in digital markets. The minimum viable product (MVP) is a friend to innovation. Association 4.0 CEOs need to be change agents.

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Associations Jordan Environment Problem 221

Association Analytics

APRIL 1, 2024

You’ll come away with specific examples from the team at the International Association of Exhibitions and Events (IAEE) that you can use to inform your own strategy. Look to create new and innovative products and services for an underserved population in your membership.

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Strategy Data Associations Survey 210

.orgSource

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Putting the user at the center of IT solutions helps teams to foresee frustrations, anxieties, or unintended consequences and to design intuitive experiences. Encourage teams to eliminate silos and become brand ambassadors. But Sharon offers this caveat, “Over the last 20-plus years, associations have been churning out products.

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Technology Collaboration Interaction Associations 251