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Lionel Valdellon

Lionel Valdellon

Lionel is a former Content Marketing Manager of Wrike. He is also a blogger since 1997, a productivity enthusiast, a project management newbie, a musician and producer of electronic downtempo music, a father of three, and a husband of one.

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Wrike Productivity Tour: Coming to a City Near You
News 3 min read

Wrike Productivity Tour: Coming to a City Near You

Presenting: the Wrike Productivity Tour! This is a seven-stop roadshow where we bring Wrike to a city near you. The Productivity Tour gives both new Wrike users as well as power users the opportunity to learn from customers and internal Wrike experts. See you there!

How to Get Unstuck: Focus on the Future (Work Management Roundup)
Productivity 5 min read

How to Get Unstuck: Focus on the Future (Work Management Roundup)

Welcome back to the weekly Work Management Roundup! We took last week off from the roundup in order to bring you our April Fools prank. But the hijinks were everywhere across the web: while some people lost their jobs because of a GIF, others were wowed by imaginary products, and people all over the globe

How to Use Flipboard to Stay on Top of Your Competition and Your Industry
Marketing 5 min read

How to Use Flipboard to Stay on Top of Your Competition and Your Industry

Because we're all busy all the time, it almost becomes a chore to seek out news online. And yet it's vital that everyone — executives and managers most of all — stay on top of their industry's headlines in order to monitor the competition. Information is key. The problem is your Facebook feed is dominated by

3 Collaboration Tips for Enhancing Teamwork
Collaboration 3 min read

3 Collaboration Tips for Enhancing Teamwork

We talk a lot about collaboration here at Wrike. Partly because it's our favorite topic and we wouldn't be able to function as a company without it. But also because trends continue to point toward more remote collaboration in the future. It's part and parcel of everyday work and it will continue to be so.  Which

Why We Complain About Work & How To Stop
Productivity 7 min read

Why We Complain About Work & How To Stop

Researchers say we complain about 15 to 30 times a day, and a lot of those complaints are about our job. Why do we complain about work? Let's take a look at what complaining is, why you do it, and how to get past it to lead a more positive life.

Combating Fear, the Productivity Killer (Work Management Roundup)
Productivity 3 min read

Combating Fear, the Productivity Killer (Work Management Roundup)

  Welcome back to the weekly Work Management Roundup, where we share the week's best links to articles on work, productivity, focus, and success to inspire you to do great things. This week, our post title is an homage to a phrase in Frank Herbert's Dune novel ("Fear is the mind killer"), but we look at

3 Work Dinosaurs: Prehistoric Tools That Should Be Extinct
Project Management 5 min read

3 Work Dinosaurs: Prehistoric Tools That Should Be Extinct

Your workplace has dinosaurs — those outdated work tools or processes that used to be able to handle the job but are no longer viable in this day and age of increased connection and collaboration. It's time to update your jurassic methods, or else get ready for extinction.

How to Market Your App Successfully (Work Management Roundup)
Marketing 3 min read

How to Market Your App Successfully (Work Management Roundup)

Welcome back to the weekly Work Management Roundup, where we grab the week's best articles concerning work, productivity, entrepreneurship, and startups and hopefully inspire you to work smarter and be more successful. This week, we take a special look at startups in general and app developers in particular, with three meaty articles on finding app

My Team Group: Share a Task with Everyone
News 3 min read

"My Team" Group: Share a Task with Everyone

In certain cases, you might need to share a task or a folder with the entire organization -- for example: a task like "Vote where you want to hold the Holiday Party" or the folder for "New Hire Onboarding." And if you've ever done it, you know that it previously took multiple clicks. Well, rest easy.

How Two Customers Cultivate Cross-Departmental Collaboration
Collaboration 5 min read

How Two Customers Cultivate Cross-Departmental Collaboration

You want to develop a more collaborative atmosphere in your organization, get the smart, highly capable people you've hired to interact with one another, despite being on different teams. But how do you motivate your people to peer over their silos and interact with others, despite personality clashes, conflicting priorities, and miscommunication? We look at two Wrike customers who, when faced with the challenge of cultivating cross-departmental collaboration, absolutely crushed it.

How Do You Hire the Best People? (Work Management Roundup)
Leadership 3 min read

How Do You Hire the Best People? (Work Management Roundup)

Welcome back to the weekly Work Management Roundup where we bring you the week's best reads in business, work, productivity, and management. This week, we take a look at startup hiring and how the search for the best is fraught with the best intentions but because we use the same old playbook, we often overlook

How to Create a Wiki Knowledge Base Using Wrike
News 3 min read

How to Create a Wiki Knowledge Base Using Wrike

We've recently been perfecting the way we house and organize documents so that our own sales team can quickly find PDFs and presentations when they're talking to people interested in Wrike. Most companies turn to a mix of knowledge bases, wikis, and content repositories, but nothing beats the simplicity of keeping everything in one place

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