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Quotes And Leadership Lessons From The Adam Project

Joseph Lalonde

The Adam Project is a Netflix original movie. The film stars Ryan Reynolds as Big Adam Reed, Walker Scobell as Young Adam Reed (I will refer to each as Big or Young as both appear throughout the movie at the same time), Mark Ruffalo as Louis Reed, Jennifer Garner as Ellie Reed, and Zoe Saldana […].

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Break Your Rules

Joseph Lalonde

Ryan Bodenheim passed away on December 20th, 2021. One of the projects he was working on was a comic book titled SPARK. He was only 44. He had so much left in life to give. It was a post-apocalyptic title for the comic book company Bad Idea. Bad Idea is a small, scrappy comic book […].

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The Size of Your Hope

Nathan Magnuson

Ryan had big plans for a new software release, but needed to put the project on pause to sort out some of the final details. “I’m not quite sure how we’re going to make payroll next month,” Ryan told me, taking inventory of his options. . You might have expected Ryan to be despondent on our call.

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The 20% Doctrine: How Tinkering, Goofing Off, and Breaking the Rules at Work Drive Success in Business

Kevin Eikenberry

By Ryan Tate This book’s title is a tip of the hat to Google’s famous 20% of time given to work on personal projects of interest. This isn’t really a new idea – Peters and Waterman made the idea of “skunkworks” famous in their book In Search of Excellence back in 1983. Yet the concept […].

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The No-Boss Workplace: Can Great Leadership Be Crowdsourced?

Terry Starbucker

This experiment was recently chronicled in the Oregonian in a front-page story by Mike Rogoway , featuring an interview with Treehouse’s CEO Ryan Carson. Here’s how Rogoway describes how project decisions get made: Any Treehouse employee can propose a project by submitting it on an internal company website.

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17 Quotes on Virtual Teamwork and Remote Teams to Inspire You

Great Results Team Building

Ryan Holmes. There is nothing more important in a group remote project than casual communication. “Interdependent people combine their own effort with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success.” – Stephen Covey. Email is familiar. It’s comfortable. It’s easy to use. David Allen. ” –David Rabin.

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Leadership Lessons From A 200-Mile Ragnar Relay Race

Joseph Lalonde

It was great getting to know Mike, Rachel, Shaundra, Mark, Dave, Kelyn, Sanchit, Melissa, Mason, Ryan, Carin, and Scott. After Ryan slapped my wrist with the orange slap bracelet, I started the run. It’s great to be together as a team at the end of a project. Everyone in the van became a mini-family. Hear From My Team.