The High Five!

Starting this week, we're publishing two new articles per week on our blog, Same Page. Moving forward, we'll be discussing those articles on The High Five. To kick us off, Greg recaps his latest article, Teams have to communicate. In the article, Greg brings up two team personas who solve team problems but might cause more problems due to a lack of communication. We talk about giving individuals and teams authority and autonomy to solve problems, share information, and help everyone succeed.

Anyway, we're excited to share more about what we're writing and welcome your perspective too. If you have a hot take on what we're discussing, email us at [email protected].

THE ASK

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THE HIT LIST

Greg:

• Listening: Duran Duran: New Moon
• Reading: Turning conflict into collaboration

Brett:

• Attending: Leadership Live Las Vegas
• Listening: RÜFÜS DU SOL - Break My Love
• Watching: Werewolf Bar Mitzvah

HIGH FIVE!

Our first playbook is ready to ship! What's the Teamangle anyway? You'll know soon enough. If you're on our mailing list, you'll get first access! Stay tuned.

Have a great weekend.

This week, we discuss the Forbes article Why Self-Advocacy Can Help You Become An Invaluable Collaborator, Brett and Greg share their own experiences with self-advocacy and discuss how to encourage self-advocacy and alignment on goals within teams.

The Ask

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The Hit List:

Brett:

• Reading: The 3 kinds of intelligence workplaces need to succeed
• Listening: Four Minute Mile by The Get Up Kids

Greg:

• Reading: The Great Discontent: Brad Montague
• Listening: Yoyaku instore session with Tomoki Tamura

High Five!

The Gods of business consulting and thought leadership have spoken, and the new team "operating system" is called "The Way We Work." Greg found it all in this HBR article, Build Better Teams.

It's really good stuff! The exciting part about this is that the principles closely align with what we're doing (and releasing soon) at Same Team Partners. During the review, we discuss the fundamentals of teamwork and building trust. And guess what? We do that work, too! With that said...

THE ASK

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THE HIT LIST:

Greg:

• Listening: Duran Duran - Dance Macabre and Psycho Killer
• Watching: KAOS

Brett:

• Seeing: Waxahatchee this Saturday at The Fillmore in Philly
• Listening: Waxahatchee, Tigers Blood
• Reading: Why Self-Advocacy Can Help You Become An Invaluable Collaborator

In last week's Hit List, Brett mentioned the Fast Company article Why we’re failing new managers and how we can set them up for success. That article got him thinking about his own experience, so he did what we do at Same Tem Partners. He wrote about it on Same Page. Check it out: Becoming a manager shouldn’t be as hard as becoming a parent. In discussing both articles, Greg and Brett share their experiences as new managers, and how to help new managers succeed,

THE ASK

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THE HIT LIST

Greg:

• Reading: Running a Critique
• Listening: TOPxMM

Brett:

• Listening: brat by Charli XCX
• Reading: Colorado man left behind during office retreat survives night on mountain

Have you ever experienced the loneliness of being the solo designer or project manager (or insert other job here) in a company? We've been there, and we just found an article on Medium, 4 challenges solo design teams face and how to overcome them, that touches on some of what lone rangers go through and how to cope. We discuss some strategies that have worked for us.

THE ASK

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THE HIT LIST

Greg:

• Reading: Wardley Mapping
• Writing: Anxiety Lives in the Past and the Future.
• Listening: Amon Tobin - Permutation

Brett:

• Listening: Sit down and love again by Sfven
• Reading: Why we’re failing new managers and how we can set them up for success

We've been thinking a lot about 1: 1 meetings at Same Team Partners. This week, while in a research rabbit hole, Brett found the article Don't cancel meetings to be productive, cancel one-on-ones written by Clickup CEO Zeb Evans. His take is that 1:1s for leaders are a waste of time. He offers some practical solutions for his business. We have a hot take on that.

The Ask

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The Hit List

• Attending: The New Purpose of the PMO at thedigitalpm
• Using: Threads! Follow us there!
• Writing: No shirt, no problem
• Listening: Happy Again, Phantogram
• Reading: The Art of Witty Banter: Be Clever, Quick, & Magnetic by Patrick King
• Watching: Nick Cage interview on The Late Show

This week's Review is all about team-building activities, and centers on the HBR article 17 Team-Building Activities for In-Person, Remote, and Hybrid Teams. Greg and Brett share their experiences planning and facilitating team events, and discuss some basic best practices.

The Ask:

Whether you're a PM or PM-curious, we'd love for you to take this brief survey to help us shape future offerings for those who help others get stuff done. And while you're at it, check out what's coming with Project Management for Humans.

The Hit List:

• Reading: Morgenmete Journal
• Watching: Damon Albarn: Studio Tour
• Reading: Kamala Harris's VP pick offers a lesson for hiring managers about 'perfect' candidates
• Listening: If i could make it go quiet by girl in red

Same Team has Olympic fever! This week, we're talking about The Olympics, and that Google Gemini ad that suggests little kids should use AI to write fan mail. We have opinions.For reference, here's the FastCompany article referenced in the show: Google’s new Gemini ad showcases Big Tech’s big AI misunderstanding

The Hit List:

• Following: Roz Duffy on LinkedIn
• Watching: Easy Way to Market Yourself, Chris Do/Futur
• Reading: Rugged old cross
• Watching: Olympic Highlights with Keven Hart and Kenan Thompson
• Read: Do Hope

The Hive Five:

• We launched Project Management for Humans on Same Page and would love for PMs or the PM=curious to take this survey so we can make more tailored PM content.

This week, we're discussing HBR's The Art of Asking Smarter Questions. Greg gets into the types of questions the guide recommends, then opens up a discussion with Brett about how phrasing questions, and even better follow=ups can help to build trust and get to better results.

The Hit List:

• Listening: Lenny’s Podcast, 5 essential questions to craft a winning strategy with Roger Martin
• Listening: Mexico by Goth Babe
• Participating: Stream Team Community
• Reading: Delayed Gratification
• Listening: The Zolas

If you follow tech news, you saw last week that Intuit laid off 1,800 employees, with the subtext that they eliminated 1,050 jobs of "underperformers." Greg and Brett unpack that and the "best" ways to fire people.

The Hit List:

• Listening: Chappell Roan, The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess
• Listening: How Agencies Can Get The Most From Their Freelance PMs
• Looking: 80000 hours
• Reading: Do interesting