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How to Protect Your Firm’s Accounts Receivable
I was once on a large consulting team working for a high-growth startup. We were working on a critical part of a complex new feature release. This feature was critical to the startup securing a new...
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The Flourishing Triangle: Why Remote Work is Kryptonite for Positive Connections
Jane Dutton is a faculty member at the Ross School of Business and a co-founder of the Center for Positive Organizations (CPO). I’ve been preparing to visit Jane’s class, “Flourishing at Work and...
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Pack Your Higher Purpose for the Long Haul
In a previous post about resilience, I shared how living by a higher purpose can increase resilience and success in life. Living by a higher purpose means having a foundational purpose for all areas of...
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Return To Office – A Time for Context-Based Leadership
As Mike and I were leading Atomic’s return-to-office (RTO) efforts, we hit a point when we needed to make a fundamental decision on how we were going to move forward. We kept our long-term goal of...
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Attention: Spending Your Most Valuable Currency
A friend recently pointed out that remote work hurts companies with strongly connected, supportive cultures, and helps companies with more dysfunctional cultures. A job with thoughtless colleagues,...
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The Future of Work and the Workplace
Rewind 571 days ago, we made the difficult decision to shut our offices and shift to remote work because of the coming COVID-19 pandemic. At the time, I thought we’d all be back in the office in a few...
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Using Day Sales Outstanding to Manage Working Capital
As a small software agency, we deal with a lot of cash flowing in and out of our business. Probably unsurprisingly, our largest operational expense is our employee’s salaries — that outflow hits our...
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Building Custom Software to Gain Strategic Market Advantage
I’m going to let you in on a secret of custom software product development. Most vendors either don’t give this subject much thought or they don’t like to talk about it. Here’s the secret: building...
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Resilience Doesn’t Come From Being Resilient
Resilience is a strong predictor of success in life. I suspect most of us have been taking a backward approach to building it. This occurred to me while listening to Bob Quinn speak during the CPO...
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Slicing the Revenue Pie in a Multi-Stakeholder Company
Atomic Object’s purpose makes it clear that we practice multi-stakeholder capitalism. We strive to be a source of fulfillment for all Atoms and a force for good for our clients and our communities....
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The Future of Work and the Workplace
Rewind 571 days ago, we made the difficult decision to shut our offices and shift to remote work because of the coming COVID-19 pandemic. At the time, I thought we’d all be back in the office in a few...
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Using Day Sales Outstanding to Manage Working Capital
As a small software agency, we deal with a lot of cash flowing in and out of our business. Probably unsurprisingly, our largest operational expense is our employee’s salaries — that outflow hits our...
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Building Custom Software to Gain Strategic Market Advantage
I’m going to let you in on a secret of custom software product development. Most vendors either don’t give this subject much thought or they don’t like to talk about it. Here’s the secret: building...
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Resilience Doesn’t Come From Being Resilient
Resilience is a strong predictor of success in life. I suspect most of us have been taking a backward approach to building it. This occurred to me while listening to Bob Quinn speak during the CPO...
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Slicing the Revenue Pie in a Multi-Stakeholder Company
Atomic Object’s purpose makes it clear that we practice multi-stakeholder capitalism. We strive to be a source of fulfillment for all Atoms and a force for good for our clients and our communities....
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Commercial versus Existential Purpose
Atomic Object designs and builds custom software products for clients in nearly all industries. That’s our commercial purpose, and, after 20 years, we’re quite good at it. Achieving our commercial...
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How I Misunderstood Mentorship and Benefited Anyway
I’m almost 60 years old. Most people would say I’m successful in my career and life. I readily point to my family, demographics, education, intelligence, hard work, and a lot of luck as explanations...
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Sabbath Sundays and Slow Mondays
Whatever you call the leader of a group of people — CEO, executive director, president, lead pastor, mayor — they have a hard job that’s tough to do in a sustainable fashion. By sustainable leadership,...
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Pursuing Social Excellence through Co-located Work
As many organizations are currently considering post-covid work expectations, I thought others might find value in Robert Quinn’s January 2020 talk “Social Excellence: Detect It, Learn from It, Create...
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The Future of Work in Atomic Object’s Offices
Unlike other technology companies embracing remote work as a long-term model, Atomic Object plans to return to our historical model of poly-skilled, co-located teams. Mike Marsiglia and I believe...
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