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Show Notes [0:00:55] Episode Summary | Intro Why Every Podcast NEEDS Intro Music Last Episode Communication Recap [0:03:13] Kicking off a New Topic Making Progress Helping our teams make progress. Establishing a work cadence. Promoting progress and not business. The Necessity of Work Cadence We’ve lost seasonality. The modern world lacks cadence and sets your team up for failure and unfair expectations. Black Friday in recent years is a perfect example of this. We don’t recognize how people’s creativity and work output is seasonal. You can’t be “at an 11” all the time. Don’t let anyone feel guilty for taking time off. Not just vacation, but allow your people to switch up what they are working on. [0:08:36] Creating Seasons to Break-up the Work This even applies to a given day’s worth of work. [0:10:00] Learning From Past Mistakes The work shouldn’t inherently dictate the season. Your “fires” shouldn’t determine and set the standard and expectations for the season. Consider checking email ONCE a day. Your team can’t work at the same speed 365 days a year. We’re literally evolved, as a species, around seasons. [0:12:10] What We’ve Done to Establish Cadence Within Our Company Ask yourself, “What is the pulse of the team?
