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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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Don't Cancel Your One-on-One Meetings (Work Management Roundup)
Leadership 3 min read

Don't Cancel Your One-on-One Meetings (Work Management Roundup)

Welcome back and TGIFR! (Thank Goodness It's Friday's Roundup!) We've collected the week's essential reads on productivity, work management, and company culture so that you can attack work, get tasks done quickly, and advance your organization. Here we go: Canceling 1x1 Meetings Destroys Productivity (HBR): When you cancel your one-on-one time with your direct reports, they

Why Your Company Should Be Excited About Pokemon Go (Work Management Roundup)
Productivity 5 min read

Why Your Company Should Be Excited About Pokemon Go (Work Management Roundup)

This week, no other topic has quite captured the imaginations of millions around the world than the Pokemon Go mobile app craze. Don't dismiss it without realizing the app's success has opened up a whole new marketing opportunity for companies— even yours. Read on!

Why Your Teamwork Sucks... and How To Improve It
Collaboration 7 min read

Why Your Teamwork Sucks... and How To Improve It

Turns out we're not naturally wired to play nicely together. Anyone who's ever watched children playing team-based games will understand. Teamwork is just that — it's WORK. In case you think that's blindingly obvious, it's not. One UC Berkeley study says that high-performing (AKA powerful) individuals who are forced to work with other powerful individuals in

Identify One Key Task Each Day (Work Management Roundup)
Productivity 3 min read

Identify One Key Task Each Day (Work Management Roundup)

It's Friday once again! Time for the weekly Work Management Roundup where we pull together our favorite reads on productivity, the workplace, and strategies to work more efficiently. So grab your drink of choice and warm up your Wrike Chrome extension to bookmark the articles you'll want to read later on the train home. Here

Work/Life Balance — a Never-ending Debate (Work Management Roundup)
Productivity 5 min read

Work/Life Balance — a Never-ending Debate (Work Management Roundup)

Welcome back to the weekly Work Management Roundup where we collect and curate articles from around the web that tackle work, promote productivity, or share advice on learning and self-improvement. This week, we tackle a potentially divisive topic: work-life balance.

10 Free Productivity Apps for Getting Things Done
Productivity 5 min read

10 Free Productivity Apps for Getting Things Done

There's nothing quite like the feeling of checking off your to-do items at the end of the day, knowing you were able to combat distraction and accomplish tasks assigned to you. But if you're like me, the distractions come a mile a minute, so the struggle to fight them off and focus solely on work

3 Reasons Why Email is Dead
Project Management 5 min read

3 Reasons Why Email is Dead

Once you need to collaborate with a team and oversee a dozen simultaneously moving parts, email suffers from a load which it wasn't meant to bear, and makes it increasingly difficult to find information or consolidate feedback. Let's examine exactly how email reached the end of its usefulness in project collaboration.

New: Search for Tasks by User Groups
News 3 min read

New: Search for Tasks by User Groups

Searching for tasks, folders, and attachments in Wrike is already pretty easy: type in the keywords, use a few advanced operators to fine-tune the search, and filter the results to get exactly what you need. As you may know, recently we also added an ability to search for content within a specific date range, and

Understanding the 5 Different Leadership Styles
Leadership 3 min read

Understanding the 5 Different Leadership Styles

Here's an infographic explaining the 5 most general leadership styles, each with a famous leader known for that style, and each listing strengths and weaknesses. Once you figure out which style your manager uses, it just might make it easier to improve your working relationship with him or her.

Are You Productive or Merely Busy? (Work Management Roundup)
Productivity 3 min read

Are You Productive or Merely Busy? (Work Management Roundup)

Welcome to the Friday Work Management Roundup where we scour the internet to gather useful articles that can help you work smarter, better, faster, stronger! So grab a mug of coffee and have your Wrike Chrome extension handy to bookmark the ones you'll want to read later. 11 Differences Between Busy vs Productive People: Lifehack has

Tip: Use Wrike in Side-by-Side Windows for Easy Referencing
Productivity 3 min read

Tip: Use Wrike in Side-by-Side Windows for Easy Referencing

Have you ever needed to work on a Wrike task while referencing another task, and had to navigate back and forth between two tabs? Or have you ever had to implement edits to a task description based on comments at the very bottom of the task, forcing you to scroll up and down endlessly? Then

Can Your Management System be Designed Like a Machine? (Work Management Roundup)
Leadership 5 min read

Can Your Management System be Designed Like a Machine? (Work Management Roundup)

Can your management system be designed like a machine or software system — with few dependencies, single owners, minimal decision points? Absolutely. Read it in our weekly Work Management Roundup.

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