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Natalie Mendes

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Natalie is the Head of Brand Content at Atlassian. Spanning a decade of experience in tech, non-profit, and agency work, Natalie’s seen firsthand the importance of healthy teamwork in making the world a better place and is dedicated to telling stories to help teams unleash their full potential.


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You’re wrong, and that’s alright

Author and entrepreneur Shane Snow shares why you should argue against yourself in order to develop better ideas.


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My daughters are coding, thanks to Minecraft and slime

Holding kids’ attention may be the hardest part of teaching coding skills. For one mom, the solution was to help her girls hack their favorite game.


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5 things to do when your team is under pressure

[cta]We all deal with stressful situations at work. These are the times teamwork comes to the fore. Will you band together and figure it out? Or freak out and fall apart? That’s what our Atlassian Workplace Experience team put to the test at our annual company team building event: Big Bash. Atlassians were given a […]


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Is your team making bad decisions? The culprit is likely your conversations

“Oh no, here we go again,” thought Laura as she sat in her weekly engineering meeting. Two of her engineers, Rob and Rachel were at it again. Arguing back and forth, over and over, about which framework they should choose for their next big project. She had seen this many times before. Team meetings where […]


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How do emotions affect productivity? [New research]

This article was written with Prashant Kukde of DeepAffects. [cta]There’s a long-held expectation that people should keep their emotions out of the workplace. I’m sure you’ve heard it at some point: keep a firm boundary between your personal and professional life. The problem is, this is not actually possible or even helpful to productivity. Human […]