38 articles tagged with 'Management'

Here's (almost) everything we have learnt in our first five years

Here's (almost) everything we have learnt in our first five years

Being able to celebrate five years running our first company is something truly remarkable. Since we're very thankful for it, we're sharing (almost) everything we have learnt so far.

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How I manage my email (no, it's not a 'how I achieve inbox zero' story)

How I manage my email (no, it's not a 'how I achieve inbox zero' story)

A couple of years ago, Slack was supposed to replace email, but that never happened, and with GDRP still looming over us, the truth is, that regulation hasn't changed the panorama at all. I'm not here to forecast the future of email. Far from it, I think what's recommendable is to manage it properly.

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How do you know if your remote employees are working?

How do you know if your remote employees are working?

In a world where we're constantly harassed by push notifications and last-minute urgent tasks, taking a step back and thinking long term is becoming an incredibly scarce skill.

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Are you really working on what matters? Get off everyone else's wishlist

Are you really working on what matters? Get off everyone else's wishlist

In a world where we're constantly harassed by push notifications and last-minute urgent tasks, taking a step back and thinking long term is becoming an incredibly scarce skill.

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#noshortcuts

#noshortcuts

Our principles are paramount to understanding our business. We believe that simpler is better, in giving the best conditions to work to increase productivity and happiness, in transparency with everyone and - most of all - in never compromising quality in whatever we do. That's why we believe in taking #noshortcuts.

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Sirenum Fossae on Mars

We shot for the stars and we landed on Mars (lessons learnt in our fourth year)

Announcing our new corporate logos, slogan, the Spanish version of the site and our newsletter.

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How to improve self-confidence when writing code

Tips on building self-confidence as a developer. Being more self-assured helps you write better code and focus on what truly matters in your software projects.

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The importance of a step back to find quick wins

We know it's difficult to stop delivering features to our clients and take some minutes to analyse how our applications are behaving in production. However, we can't forget to do this from time to time because sometimes there are instant wins which will create a huge impact.

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I'm an office manager in an officeless company, so... what am I supposed to do?

All-remote companies with distributed teams are more complex than it appears. Here's how we run MarsBased after four years of operations.

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Three years running our first business: lessons learnt

Everyone said that a full-remote, employees-first, quality-driven consultancy highly specialised in niche technologies would not work. Here we are after three years.

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How to maintain company culture with remote teams

As remote teams become more and more prevalent how can you build community among your distributed workforce?

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Here's how we use Basecamp to manage our teams remotely

We've been using Basecamp 3 for a while now, and it really fits our company culture of having no office.

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