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Lionel Valdellon

Lionel Valdellon

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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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The Top 7 Productivity Roadblocks That Crush Designers' Creativity
Productivity 7 min read

The Top 7 Productivity Roadblocks That Crush Designers' Creativity

We asked our own team of designers as well as design experts on social media what they consider to be the top productivity roadblocks, and present them here alongside some solutions and advice for getting past these challenges.

4 Collaboration Secrets Guaranteed to Improve Teamwork
Collaboration 5 min read

4 Collaboration Secrets Guaranteed to Improve Teamwork

These four tips are guaranteed to uplevel your teamwork in ways that might surprise even your most jaded team members. But only if you're ready to be a brave leader.

What's the Best Music To Work To? (Work Management Roundup)
Productivity 3 min read

What's the Best Music To Work To? (Work Management Roundup)

It's Friday the 7th! Time for this week's edition of the Work Management Roundup where you can grab the latest links to articles on getting work done efficiently and improving yourself. As always, you can browse these links in the accompanying Flipboard magazine: The Work Management Roundup What to Listen to While Working (Medium): Does listening

How to Fix the Fragmentation of Information in the Workplace
Collaboration 5 min read

How to Fix the Fragmentation of Information in the Workplace

Welcome to the age of abundant yet fragmented information in the workplace. There is a very real fragmentation problem. Because, to put it bluntly, our work information is all over the place. And it is affecting our work speed and overall efficiency, both as individuals and as teams.

Tackle Big Problems in Small Chunks (Work Management Roundup)
Productivity 3 min read

Tackle Big Problems in Small Chunks (Work Management Roundup)

Welcome to the Friday Work Management Roundup, where we bring together the week's best reads on productivity and work efficiency. You can also opt to read these links on our accompanying Flipboard mag. This week, we have links for doing more, learning more, and simply being more awesome. Read on. Top Recommendations This Week Solve Problems by

Bad Office Behavior is Risky Business
Leadership 5 min read

Bad Office Behavior is Risky Business

Whether you're talking about unethical actions or everyday whining, the thing about bad workplace behavior is that it's infectious. Someone starts gossiping over lunch, and before you know it, cliques of people are trading horror stories about the NSFW image they may or may not have spotted on their colleague's computer screen. And if this type of behavior is not nipped in the bud, it spreads throughout the company. It becomes the company culture.

Project Management Lessons from the Pluto Flyby (Work Management Roundup)
Project Management 3 min read

Project Management Lessons from the Pluto Flyby (Work Management Roundup)

Now that it's Friday once again, we're here to deliver the best reads on managing work and teams. This week, we give you articles on long-term planning, team motivation, a 15-minute productivity routine, and tools for learning as well as managing a small business. Read on! And remember, you can also browse these articles on

How Can You Spot an Excellent Employee? (Work Management Roundup)
Leadership 3 min read

How Can You Spot an Excellent Employee? (Work Management Roundup)

Welcome back to the weekly Work Management Roundup, where we gather and show off our collected news articles from around the world wide web — as if they were newly-hatched Pokemon. But seriously, we lead off with articles on excellent employees, and the kind of corporate culture that nurtures this type of excellence. Read on!

Wrike Integrates with Zapier for a World of Automation
News 3 min read

Wrike Integrates with Zapier for a World of Automation

Wrike always strives to keep all your work information connected. Which is why there is an ongoing effort to integrate it with all your favorite apps and project management automation tools. Meet our latest great integration: Zapier.  Zapier is an action automation cloud tool that makes it easy and effortless to pass data between two separate

What Is a Gantt Chart for Project Management? (Infographic)
Project Management 3 min read

What Is a Gantt Chart for Project Management? (Infographic)

Today, Gantt charts are a staple tool in project management software. They show up in project binders, on boardroom walls, and in project management plans — all because they are able to visually convey what would take paragraphs of boring text. But who invented them? What makes them beneficial for project planning? And what are

How to Figure Out If You're a Workaholic (Infographic)
Productivity 3 min read

How to Figure Out If You're a Workaholic (Infographic)

Are you always working late into the night? Or pushing yourself to work hard because you want constant recognition by coworkers? Is it all to the detriment of your personal relationships? If so, you just might be a workaholic. Psychology Today calls workaholism "a soul-destroying addiction that changes people's personality and the values they live

How Automation, Mobile, and BYOA are Changing the Way We Work
News 5 min read

How Automation, Mobile, and BYOA are Changing the Way We Work

CIO.com recently interviewed Wrike Founder and CEO, Andrew Filev, on the nine forces shaping the future of IT. The article identifies automation, collaboration, and agility as three of those forces -- and they're the very forces that inform and power our work here at Wrike. But what exactly is changing in the current landscape -- not

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