Come Up for Air: How Teams Can Leverage Systems and Tools to Stop Drowning in Work

This is a hybrid of strategic thinking and best practice principles that form the definitive playbook for optimizing team output, alignment, and performance. A playbook focused on the impact of the collective, not just the individual.

I foresee some of these tools being combined in the future to create a more centralized digital headquarters with less context switching.

A project management tool, by definition, is for completing project-related work. But the reality is that most organizations have lots of work that lives in one project, multiple projects, or none at all. A work management tool is better for completing both projectand non-project-related work. That means it’s equally effective for managing complex

take steps to do it, let alone implement systems for doing it and maintaining it.

methodologies, structure, and guidelines. They need to understand how to implement the systems, tools, and processes readily available to them to executive effectively and collaboratively. The world is changing faster than we can keep up, and Nick and I are in agreement—we can make a difference in peoples’ lives in the way that we work.

Every organization has processes. The problem is that most are not optimized or well documented.

What if I told you I could give you one extra day of the week to catch up on work or spend however you’d like, while still maintaining your

creating a “pull” communication environment,

struggling in the same three key areas I had been: Communication, Planning, and Resources—CPR.

Resources are ultimately broken down into two areas. The first is the creation of a knowledge base, or wiki, to house vital company information.