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In light of today’s chat, I’d thought it’d be useful to explain why we ran this guest post by Travelpayouts head Ivan Baidin touting the productivity gains created by introducing a GSSD program, aka “Getting S*** Done Day.”
One day every other week, Travelpayouts “employees define clear-cut goals and receive specific, usually non-trivial, tasks with little to no communication involved,” writes Baidin.
Getting S*** Done Day has allowed the team to address “sidelined” projects that may have seemed like small potatoes: rebuilding lifecycle emails, improving analytics and optimizing working hours.
Completing each of these “eternally postponed” tasks created incremental gains, says Baidin. “That is something we value a lot.”
This article contains strategic, actionable advice for implementing a GSDD program that includes the lessons the learned as they identified problems with the experiment. It’s a classic TechCrunch+ “how-to.”
Thanks very much for reading!
Walter Thompson
Senior Editor, TechCrunch+
@yourprotagonist
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