Changing Teams with Music: A Retrospective on a Year of Adding...
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A team creates a catchy Fun Done Learn song in a week and uses a children's-program melody and parodies to turn a retrospective into an earworm; the song reaches 20,000 page views, earns an internal award, plays across webinars and conferences, and gets distributed as cassette tapes at events; hiring candidates reference it in interviews, other companies adopt the method, and automated tools like Snow AI are proposed to auto-generate team anthems.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction to music and teams
- 2:44History of music in nations
- 4:31Music in sports and companies
- 7:24Personal journey with Fun Run
- 10:17Creating the Fun Run song
- 13:23Impact and recognition of the song
- 15:34Overcoming embarrassment with music
- 16:39Proposal to introduce music in teams
- 20:27Conclusion and final song
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