Tool Tuesday: Slack

Slack was the fastest growing company to ever reach a $2B valuation and last year it raised its latest round at a valuation just over $5B. Why? Because it’s a truly amazing product to increase productivity. In fact, today, Slack was announced as #32 on Fast Company’s 50 Most Innovative Companies list. In my...
Jake
Jake Udell
on February 20, 2018

Possibility vs. Limitation

One thing all of our Presidents have had in common is they believed they could become President of the United States. They saw the possibility. I have written before that “busy” is an awful word. That post had many responses, so I am elaborating on it today. Somebody you aspire to build with asks...
Jake
Jake Udell
on February 19, 2018

Song Sunday: A Meaningful Moment Through a Meaning(less) Process by Stars of the Lid

Last week in yoga this song was played and I had an immediate emotional connection. My memory endlessly searched to recall where I knew it from. I just remembered a voice narrating to it, but couldn’t remember whose voice or why the song was important to me. And then, I remembered. The narrating voice...
Jake
Jake Udell
on February 18, 2018

Your Own Path

Every Friday at 5 PM, the TH3RD BRAIN team gets together for Intentions – Each person shares (including those on the phone) by acknowledging two people at the company for their greatness that week, mentioning one thing he or she did well, can improve, and is looking forward to. The activity takes an hour. It...
Jake
Jake Udell
on February 17, 2018

$10 an Hour Jobs

How are you spending each hour of your work time? Most of us are always thinking about growth. But are you spending your time executing in areas you make the most impact? One of the first steps to valuing your time is to remove (or find ways to bundle) tasks which can be handled...
Jake
Jake Udell
on February 16, 2018

Songs the World Can Sing

Our head of A&R Dan Helfrich shared this instagram post from Jason Evigan yesterday – It’s so true. When I was in the Philippines visiting Rachel’s family, it was shocking how many “global” pop stars the kids had never heard of, yet they could all sing Charlie Puth’s “One Call Away”. How do they...
Jake
Jake Udell
on February 15, 2018

Supercharge Your Growth

Brilliant music marketer Amber Horsburgh asked if me to write a couple sentences of advice to someone entering the music business for her blog Deep Cuts. The below themes are imperative to a young person’s success, and they will supercharge a leader already on his or her way. A “couple sentences” later, here’s what I came...
Jake
Jake Udell
on February 14, 2018

Tool Tuesday: Snoozing Email

If you don’t have snoozing set-up on your inbox, you are equivalent to a soccer team with no goalie. Snoozing is the ultimate game changer – The hack of all hacks! The snooze button (sometimes called boomerang) temporarily removes an email chain from your inbox and returns it at a later time of your...
Jake
Jake Udell
on February 13, 2018

Why I Write

A few conversations with professionals I respect got me thinking I started Art of a Manager without ever communicating to you my Why for writing, so here it is: 1. Sharing knowledge matters Sharing is caring. When I was on a hike yesterday with Rachel, I saw a woman carrying a book “I’ve Decided...
Jake
Jake Udell
on February 12, 2018

Song Sunday: Stay by Stephen feat. Lindsey Cook

Back in May of 2016, our Stephen released his debut album – Sincerely. The title perfectly summed up the profound message he hand crafted for over two years. When it came out, the people responded – the lead single “Crossfire” has over 100MM streams… on Spotify and YouTube alone (excited to finally get the Apple...
Jake
Jake Udell
on February 11, 2018
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