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Why Flat Teams Need Nurturing in Work Magazine
Why Flat Teams Need Nurturing in Work Magazine
Consultant Nina Narelle was interviewed for a short piece in Work magazine. In today's complex business enviro...
The Knowing Doing Gap
The Knowing Doing Gap
Large organizations have access to more of this data than anyone else, but struggle to turn that info into an ...
Create Change By Redesigning Your Thinking – Dave Gray on the Business Model Sandbox Podcast
Create Change By Redesigning Your Thinking – Dave Gray on the Business Model Sandbox Podcast
Create Change By Redesigning Your Thinking - Dave Gray on the Business Model Sandbox Podcast...
Breaking Down Design Thinking – Matt Morasky on the Metastential Podcast
Breaking Down Design Thinking – Matt Morasky on the Metastential Podcast
Breaking Down Design Thinking - Matt Morasky on the Metastential Podcast...
XPLANE Named One of The 100 Best Companies to Work For in Oregon
XPLANE Named One of The 100 Best Companies to Work For in Oregon
XPLANE Named One of The 100 Best Companies to Work For in Oregon...
The Smartest Person in the Room
The Smartest Person in the Room
How can we truly collaborate, learn from each other, and get aligned in a meeting? The key is involvement....
How to Design and Implement Organizational Culture
How to Design and Implement Organizational Culture
How to Design and Implement Organizational Culture with the activation curve, culture map, and empathy map fro...
How Do You Communicate Effectively in the Workplace? Use Visuals.
How Do You Communicate Effectively in the Workplace? Use Visuals.
Five reasons why it’s time to normalize the work doodle and start communicating with your employees using vi...
Design Consultants vs. Regular Consultants: The Thinkers, Makers, and Doers of Strategy
Design Consultants vs. Regular Consultants: The Thinkers, Makers, and Doers of Strategy
Most companies don't lack good strategies, but fail at implementing them. That is where a design consultancy c...
Three Exercises For Creating High-Performing Teams
Three Exercises For Creating High-Performing Teams
What makes a team effective? Why do some teams make one another stronger while others tear each other down? Ca...
Pop-Up XPLANE Recap: Our Design Thinking Discussion, Visualized
Pop-Up XPLANE Recap: Our Design Thinking Discussion, Visualized
For our third night of our Pop-Up XPLANE adventure in Detroit, we hosted a panel of brainiacs at DC3 to d...
What Books Shape the Way You Work?
What Books Shape the Way You Work?
We recently asked the XPLANE studio: What books most shape the way you work?...
Four Steps to Implement a Sustainability Team at Your Office
Four Steps to Implement a Sustainability Team at Your Office
This fall we officially launched BAT, XPLANE’s Betterment Action Team. BAT’s cross-functional team...
Talking About Performance Management with Tamra Chandler
Talking About Performance Management with Tamra Chandler
You know the zombie-like feeling you get at the end of a long conference?...
Olfactoral Thinking: Pushing the Boundaries of Design and Visual Thinking
Olfactoral Thinking: Pushing the Boundaries of Design and Visual Thinking
Design Thinking has been gaining momentum in the business world as a method for problem solving. Visual Thinki...
Five Ways to Improve Client Relationships
Five Ways to Improve Client Relationships
Last week I participated in an Improv Level 1 class, and aside from having a great time and earning a healthy ...
How to Successfully Manage Globally Dispersed Teams While Wearing Slippers
How to Successfully Manage Globally Dispersed Teams While Wearing Slippers
WFH. The first time I read those three letters, I had no idea what they meant. Despite my vast knowledge base ...
Approaching the Strategic Plan — Thoughtfully
Approaching the Strategic Plan — Thoughtfully
In January 2015, we received an RFP asking for help developing a five-year strategic plan. As an organization ...
Facilitator’s Guide to When the Group Says “Hell No”
Facilitator’s Guide to When the Group Says “Hell No”
It was 3:30pm. We were seven hours into the first day of a two-day leadership team offsite and the afternoon c...
Create an Inspiring Meeting with The Hero’s Journey Agenda
Create an Inspiring Meeting with The Hero’s Journey Agenda
Organizing a full-day offsite meeting? Leading a two-day summit for your department? Take your team on a journ...
Behind the Scenes with Design for America: The 2015 Strategic Journey
Behind the Scenes with Design for America: The 2015 Strategic Journey
This article was originally written by Design for America's Allison Chen....
Stop Advising. Start Leading.
Stop Advising. Start Leading.
In many organizations, the role of Human Resources leaders has been to advise and counsel other business leade...
Slow Design: XPLANE Amsterdam Takes on Visual Thinking School
Slow Design: XPLANE Amsterdam Takes on Visual Thinking School
In a results driven world where efficiency seems to be the highest priority, we work hard with a clear target ...
Liminal Thinking: The Art of Finding, Creating, and Unlocking Potential
Liminal Thinking: The Art of Finding, Creating, and Unlocking Potential
Liminal is Latin for threshold.
Literally a threshold is a doorway. But a threshold is also a starting point,...