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

I want them to have that systems-driven mindset so that they’re documenting their processes and creating systems to fulfill their role’s responsibilities

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

Need to send someone notes from a meeting? Copying and pasting them into a quick text message is much quicker than creating a document, sharing it with the right people, and adding it to an internal knowledge base. The former is optimized for the speed of transfer, whereas the latter is optimized for the speed of retrieval. Although creating a docu

I’ve found that most problems people face with technology are due to improper setup, training, and mindset around when and how to use them. At Leverage, we’ve cracked the code for this, and it’s what we help our clients with every day. We’ve invested millions of dollars into figuring out the best ways to set up and train teams on how to use any num

people who are drowning, this framework resuscitated my business when it was on the verge of bankruptcy.

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.

High-frequency trading also showed me the value of data and making data-driven decisions.

It takes something that can be done only by one individual and turns it into something that can be done by anyone, an infinite number of times.

manner, which is where the capabilities of a work management tool end. I like to think of complexity in this context as a function of the number of steps, the number of people, the need for conditional logic, and the need for enforcing a strict order of operations. The higher those four variables are, the better suited it is for a process managemen