Ideas, insights, and inside looks at how modern teams collaborate, manage work, and scale smarter – with a dash of product updates and stories from the trenches

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How to Manage and Lead Creative Teams

Some managers believe that handling and leading a team of creatives can be very similar to taking care of preschool children: they sleep (procrastinate) when they want, they play (work) when they see fit and often whine if things are not to their liking. But does this group delivers results? Oh boy ...

Team Collaboration 6 min read

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Self-Hosted vs Cloud-Based Project Management Tool

Is it better to use self-hosted or cloud version of ActiveCollab? They both have the same features so the decision depends on the structure of your company.Self-hosting is great if you plan on using ActiveCollab for more than a year and/or have a lot of team members.If on the other hand you don't want ...

Product 4 min read

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All Leadership Theories in Under 15 Minutes

You have 15 minutes at your disposal and want to know the basics of all leadership theories? This is THE post for you! It will provide you with essential information about all theories, the main idea behind each one, and a bunch of excellent links if you would like to further your research. So let’s ...

Team Collaboration 9 min read

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Extreme Project Management XPM

"Extreme project management is the art and science of facilitating and managing the flow of thoughts, emotions, and interactions in a way that produces valued outcomes under turbulent and complex conditions: those that feature high speed, high change, high uncertainty, and high stress." - Doug DeCarlo ...

Project Management 4 min read

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Adaptive Project Management

Adaptive project management is a structured and systematic process that allows you to gradually improve your decisions and practices, by learning from outcomes of the decisions that you took at previous stages in the project. As the name suggests, project management process changes and adapts to the ...

Project Management 4 min read

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Belbin Team Roles: Theory and Practice

Why is your team successful? Why is your team failing? Dr. Belbin has an answer.Dr. Raymond Meredith Belbin is the leading authority on team roles. His research and knowledge, which spanned more than 40 years, showed that it is more important how members fit together than how smart they individually ...

Team Collaboration 5 min read

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How Activecollab Helped Us Increase Sales

Customer story written by Alejandro Esbozos from BlocdeesbozosHi all! My name is Alejandro Esbozos, I’m Spanish, run Blocdeesbozos, a marketing consultancy company, and I’m a proud customer of ActiveCollab. I use ActiveCollab for task management, and it has improved communication and collaboration ...

Customer Stories 4 min read

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High Performing Teams: What Are They & How To Build One?

Imagine having a team of 400,000 people working for years on a project that could change the notion of what was previously thought of as possible. Succeed, and you get a glowing page in the history books. Fail, and you waste billions of dollars, and potentially, three human lives.Oh, and the entire thing ...

Team Collaboration 7 min read

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Group vs Team [Differences, Comparison, Transformation]

When people share an elevator ride, they are a group; when the elevator gets stuck, they become a team.Individuals that get on the same elevator most likely share some things, like: they work in the same building and on the same floor, or they may work for the same boss and have similar interests. The ...

Team Collaboration 6 min read

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Types of Teams [Advantages and Disadvantages]

Teams can be divided into four main groups: project teams, self-managed teams, virtual teams, and operational teams. What type of team you have depends on its purpose, location, and organizational structure. Each type of team comes with its unique set of strengths and weaknesses. In order to fully utilize ...

Team Collaboration 6 min read

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Everything You Need to Know About Self-Hosted ActiveCollab

What is self-hostingSelf-hosting is when you download some software, install it on your own server, and access it from the URL and the server that you own.There are desktop apps, mobile apps, web apps, and hybrid apps:Desktop app is installed on a computer and only the person using the computer can access ...

Product 5 min read