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• Curt Wagner
• 2024-10-17
• Trade Show News
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Use the pull method and sticky notes to tackle work

Here's how a team of IT professionals uses spare office walls and sticky notes to prevent individual team members from being overloaded, and how to move projects forward or kill them. Also: How can you do the same thing. Author: Michelle Russell CEMA Summit attendees use post-it notes at a spontaneous think tank meeting in August. (regardless of media group) In his latest book, Low Productivity: The Lost Art of Achieving without BurnoutGeorgetown University computer science professor Cal Newport talks about his work on MIT Management Review. This is the story of a team of IT professionals tasked with building novel digital tools to help scientists at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard in Cambridge, Massachusetts. I was immediately drawn to how they used a simulated approach to solving challenges – using sticky notes on the wall, another example of the power of this seemingly simple tool in a group setting. In his latest book, Cal Newport discusses how…