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Experiment Canvas Template

Leapfrogging

By documenting each experiment and its outcomes, teams build a knowledge base that can inform future initiatives and reduce repeated mistakes. In cross-functional teams, the canvas ensures alignment between product managers, designers, developers, and marketers by providing a shared view of priorities and methods.

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How to Avoid Voting Bias in Crowdsourcing

IdeaScale

Use one of IdeaScale’s other evaluation methods: five star-ratings, pairwise comparison, etc. You can even automate the software so that when an idea reaches that goal it automatically moves to the next stage for review or team-building, etc. Don’t use voting.

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Unlocking Success: The Power of Effective Strategy Offsite Design

Leapfrogging

Team Building : Strengthening the camaraderie and trust among the leadership team members. Session Type Duration Objective Welcome and Introduction 30 minutes Set the tone and objectives for the offsite Keynote on Strategic Vision 1 hour Align the team on the long-term vision Breakout Discussion Groups 1.5

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Using Wikis to Document UI Specifications

Boxes and Arrows

As designers, we often find ourselves working with teams that are using agile processes. This method is both adaptive and sufficient for teams building and delivering products, and helps to foster the collaboration that agile development requires. It’s adaptive and allows for a collaborative experience.

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A Story from Google Shows You Don’t Need Power to Drive Strategy

Harvard Business Review

For comparison purposes, we made sure that these leaders included a mix of those with and without formal authority. The team building Google+ was looking for ways to differentiate their product from Facebook and the ability to control personal information was seen as compelling. They work with an eye toward scale.

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Leaders, Stop Avoiding Hard Decisions

Harvard Business Review

The most significant consequence was that the executive missed an opportunity to help his team build resilience in the face of a tough challenge. Whatever temporary pain you might incur from making a tough call should pale in comparison to the precedent you set that it’s important to put the organization’s success first.

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Stop Comparing Management to Sports

Harvard Business Review

A more useful comparison is that of a builder of communities, with investors, suppliers, partners and, most of all, your employees. Granted, the analogy of successful sports teams can sometimes aid managers to reflect on how to build and manage their own teams. A better, but admittedly less sexy, metaphor.