Robert Bates

2015-04-10T05:18:59+00:00

When you’re looking at professional sports, there are typically two ways that information is shared after coaches and executive-level management are dismissed. Neither of them are direct. In one scenario, a team will have a disastrous season or two, and the coach or exec is fired without much ceremony. It’s usually a publicly anticipated move

Jane Doe

2015-04-10T05:16:44+00:00

Before we started experimenting, sales always worked well for us because of our intuitive understanding of what we were selling.We weren’t selling a product, we weren’t selling a subscription. We were selling MetaLab: our origin stories, our rationales, our experiences, and the scars to prove that we’d been there and slogged through it all. Good

Jane Doe

2015-04-10T05:15:48+00:00

We have to accept that we aren’t super-human. Too many designers pride themselves on hand-crafting everything they produce. They write their own code and insist on designing every screen of a project themselves. Designers like this burn themselves out within a matter of years. When your business grows, your time invariably gets split between doing

Robert Bates

2015-04-10T05:12:08+00:00

A couple of years ago, I initiated an internal Show & Tell on the last Friday of every month. This allowed all sectors of the company consulting, Product and Themes.