Jan 28, 2016 | Cardsmith, Productivity, Project management, Strategy, Work
If you work as an independent consultant, you understand the challenge of playing two roles at once: consultant and salesperson. It’s a uniquely frustrating cycle. First, you submerge yourself in nonstop selling and networking activity. You keep at it because you know... 
Jan 26, 2016 | Cardsmith, Productivity, Project management, Strategy, Thinking tools
We’ve all been there. You conduct a lively group brainstorming session during which your team members contribute a bunch of interesting, creative solutions or ideas…but nothing actually comes of it. Instead, the results merely stagnate on a photo you took of the... 
Jan 19, 2016 | Cardsmith, Creativity, Productivity, Project management, Strategy, Things we love, Thinking tools, Uncategorized, Work
Can we all take a second and appreciate that our current reality looks a lot like the future we predicted ever so long ago? A moment in time with actual hoverboards, self-aware robots, and a new (good) Star Wars movie? Yep, the future is now. So why, on a daily basis,... 
Jan 5, 2016 | Cardsmith, Productivity, Project management, Strategy, Thinking tools
Do you use a list when you shop for groceries? If so, you are already a project manager. There’s a reason countless productivity, task, and to-do applications highlight grocery lists among their use cases. As simplistic as it may seem, shopping for food has all the... 
Dec 22, 2015 | Cardsmith, Creativity, Design, Productivity, Products, Project management, Strategy, Thinking tools, Uncategorized, Work
In the first part of this series, I explored using agile project milestones for creative endeavors. In this case, we’re using that term to broadly describe projects that need to be planned and tracked, but perhaps aren’t as concrete or knowable as projects that... 
Dec 15, 2015 | Cardsmith, Productivity, Project management, Strategy, Thinking tools, Uncategorized, Work
At Cardsmith, we spend a lot of time thinking about project management. I’m not just referring to making project management faster, more responsive, and more rewarding. We also reflect on what it means to “manage” a project and, beyond that, how we define and...