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How Agile Meetings Impact Arousal Levels and Team Productivity

Apiumhub

In Agile environments, maintaining focus is crucial to achieving optimal performance, especially in complex tasks like software development. In physical realms, arousal triggers the body’s readiness for action—exercise, rapid reactions, etc. Mentally, arousal governs alertness, attention, and problem-solving capabilities.

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Case in point: taking stock of the CrowdStrike outages

CIO

The company released a fix 78 minutes later, but making it required users to manually access the affected devices, reboot in safe mode, and delete a bad file. It can take time to test each update to make sure it works before rolling it out time bad actors can take advantage of. An automated fix wasnt released until three days later.

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2 exercises that will bring your brand persona to life

TechCrunch

Create target customer personas to develop successful growth strategies. Once you articulate the attributes that contribute to your brand’s persona and the primary elements of your brand’s voice, you’ll have a blueprint for every single writer, marketer, product team and designer who touches your brand from now on.

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Straffr is a smart resistance band that helps you exercise on the go

TechCrunch

Straffr’s smart resistance band, which comes in either medium or strong strength grades, connects to the companion app using Bluetooth and starts tracking soon as you start stretching and flexing — providing feedback on your training session, not just on reps but on “quality” of exercise, per CEO Stefan Weiss.

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How to make coaching work for your sales team

TechCrunch

The advent of SaaS and cloud-based software services has all but obliterated the traditional sales model, but not many organizations are actually helping their sales teams adapt to this new world order. Every sales team is composed of vastly different individuals who possess distinctive soft skills, behaviors and mindsets.

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7 Ways to Help Your Team Deal with Ambiguity

Let's Grow Leaders

Every manager and team member will be more effective with greater skill in this arena. But, tackling the topic head on will save a lot of wasted time and emotional energy, for you, and your team, while preparing your team members for larger roles in the process. 7 Ways to Help Your Team Deal With Ambiguity.

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Startup Speed Is Sine Qua Non For Startup Success. Here’s How To Achieve It.

Crunchbase News

Development pace: Is code typically shipped in days/weeks, or does it take months/quarters? Talent operations: How quickly are new hires productive and how quickly are underperformers managed out? Communication flow: How fast do important developments/results travel throughout the entire organization?