Asana Part 1 – Technology-Enabled Team Wisdom
Asana – not just a yoga pose but a company!Dustin Moskovitz and Justin Rosenstein founded Asana to enable teams to accomplish their goals more effectively. They do this by leveraging technology to form a collective memory, a “source of truth” as they describe it. They facilitate self organization so others see the information – and have a more immediate way of acting on it. It's like a fluid project management system.
Do you suffer from continual partial attention? Their objective is to facilitate optimizing your energy with what is most important at any given time.These entrepreneurs embody and apply what they know to be true:
Powering through things and driving yourself is not what makes you most effective.
Doing sprints, with rests in-between is more effective (as described in Loehr's and Schwartz's The Power of Full Engagement).
In order to do creative work, it is important as an individual and as a company to understand your energy patterns and work with those in a deliberate way.
It is possible to be in sync – work in harmony with a higher spiritual mission and be a business and a successful company.
Company practices that support these beliefs:
They have a company chef to make good, nutritious food, in order to maximize energy levels.
They align their people with a mindfulness practice – to pay attention to what they are doing and how they are doing it.
Every Friday they have a TGIF where they share one thing they are excited about and one opportunity to put more attention to.
Food for thought....