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XPLANE Work Works: What We’ve Learned About Creating an Award-Winning Workplace
XPLANE Work Works: What We’ve Learned About Creating an Award-Winning Workplace
Awards are more than a plaque for the wall or a shiny new trophy, it’s validation directly from our own empl...
The Barrier to Company-Wide Innovation
The Barrier to Company-Wide Innovation
Companies need adapt and organize in a radically different way to lead in the future. Organizations need to fo...
A Business Within The Business: Aligning Your Employees, Managers, and Owners
A Business Within The Business: Aligning Your Employees, Managers, and Owners
Is there a way to get everyone in your company to act like owners? Yes, but not without changing the structure...
Becoming a Values-based, Purpose-led Organization
Becoming a Values-based, Purpose-led Organization
CEO Aric Wood announces that XPLANE just became a Certified B Corporation!...
The Key to Implementing Company-Wide Change
The Key to Implementing Company-Wide Change
If you want to make a large change in your business strategy or company culture, it’s vital that your employ...
Why Flat Teams Need Nurturing in Work Magazine
Why Flat Teams Need Nurturing in Work Magazine
Consultant Nina Narelle was interviewed for a short piece in Work magazine. In today's complex business enviro...
Breaking Down Design Thinking – Matt Morasky on the Metastential Podcast
Breaking Down Design Thinking – Matt Morasky on the Metastential Podcast
Breaking Down Design Thinking - Matt Morasky on the Metastential Podcast...
XPLANE Named One of The 100 Best Companies to Work For in Oregon
XPLANE Named One of The 100 Best Companies to Work For in Oregon
XPLANE Named One of The 100 Best Companies to Work For in Oregon...
How to Design and Implement Organizational Culture
How to Design and Implement Organizational Culture
How to Design and Implement Organizational Culture with the activation curve, culture map, and empathy map fro...
Three Exercises For Creating High-Performing Teams
Three Exercises For Creating High-Performing Teams
What makes a team effective? Why do some teams make one another stronger while others tear each other down? Ca...
What Books Shape the Way You Work?
What Books Shape the Way You Work?
We recently asked the XPLANE studio: What books most shape the way you work?...
Four Steps to Implement a Sustainability Team at Your Office
Four Steps to Implement a Sustainability Team at Your Office
This fall we officially launched BAT, XPLANE’s Betterment Action Team. BAT’s cross-functional team...
Talking About Performance Management with Tamra Chandler
Talking About Performance Management with Tamra Chandler
You know the zombie-like feeling you get at the end of a long conference?...
Five Ways to Improve Client Relationships
Five Ways to Improve Client Relationships
Last week I participated in an Improv Level 1 class, and aside from having a great time and earning a healthy ...
How to Successfully Manage Globally Dispersed Teams While Wearing Slippers
How to Successfully Manage Globally Dispersed Teams While Wearing Slippers
WFH. The first time I read those three letters, I had no idea what they meant. Despite my vast knowledge base ...
Facilitator’s Guide to When the Group Says “Hell No”
Facilitator’s Guide to When the Group Says “Hell No”
It was 3:30pm. We were seven hours into the first day of a two-day leadership team offsite and the afternoon c...
Liminal Thinking: The Art of Finding, Creating, and Unlocking Potential
Liminal Thinking: The Art of Finding, Creating, and Unlocking Potential
Liminal is Latin for threshold.
Literally a threshold is a doorway. But a threshold is also a starting point,...
What is Culture Mapping and Why Should You Care?
What is Culture Mapping and Why Should You Care?
60-70 percent of change initiatives fail to meet their stated objectives, and the primary source of that failu...
A Brief History of Co-Creation
A Brief History of Co-Creation
Co-Creation is a powerful concept: engaging broad stakeholders in a design or problem-solving process as co-de...
Inside XPLANE: Culture
Inside XPLANE: Culture
Culture is the Heart of Our Organization
We aren't trapped in cubicles all day, and there isn't a time...
Surviving the Big One: Visual Thinking Through the End of the World
Surviving the Big One: Visual Thinking Through the End of the World
Did you read that article in The New Yorker about how the big Portland earthquake will destroy our beloved Pac...
Unicorn Hunting: How I Spot the Right Candidate in a Sea of Donkeys
Unicorn Hunting: How I Spot the Right Candidate in a Sea of Donkeys
I have seen a lot of disasters when it comes to interviews. I have had candidates cry; I have had them tell me...
Gamestorming User Experience—Because You Can
Gamestorming User Experience—Because You Can
Anyone can make a pitch to change the world in which they live. Start with empathy. Draw the story. Pick a car...
XPLANE Designers Take Over Show & Tell at Portland State University
XPLANE Designers Take Over Show & Tell at Portland State University
On Thursday, May 21, our Associate Creative Director Tim May and Designer Jeffery Frankenhauser teamed up with...