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Work Check presents: Should you turn your camera on in video calls?
Teamistry - March 21, 2023 04:00 - 27 minutesDoes turning your camera on during Zoom meetings fill you with dread? Or do you look forward to seeing your colleagues' faces on calls? Today, we’re sharing an episode of Work Check, another podcast from Atlassian that debates issues you might be facing with your remote team. This debate – Sho...
Part 6: Will Sonic Booms Return to our Skies?
Teamistry - February 06, 2023 05:00 - 33 minutesWhy did Concorde disappear from our skies? In the final episode, we pose this question to the people closest to the Concorde project, from the teams who engineered its first flight to those who picked up the debris after the fatal Air France crash. We also discuss Concorde's legacy, and its impa...
Part 5: Rising from the Ashes
Teamistry - January 23, 2023 05:00 - 37 minutesIn the late afternoon of July 25th, 2000, a Concorde crashed into a hotel near Charles de Gaulle airport. Air France flight 4590 was carrying 100 passengers, most of them tourists from Germany, along with a crew of nine. All perished, including four people on the ground. The incident shocked the...
Part 4: Becoming the Sexiest Flight on Earth
Teamistry - January 09, 2023 05:05 - 31 minutesAs teams of engineers work around the clock to keep the supersonic airplane safe and in the air, to the outside world Concorde has become a pop cultural icon. Princess Diana, Mick Jagger, Phil Collins, Joan Collins, Sting – these celebrities form an A-list of frequent flyers. The in-flight menu ...
Part 3: "The Big Bird Flies!"
Teamistry - December 19, 2022 05:05 - 33 minutesYears of hard work, innovation, and unprecedented collaboration between teams in the U.K. and France make the impossible, possible: the first French Concorde prototype takes flight, and a new page in aviation history is written. But the supersonic airplane isn’t ready to ferry passengers just ye...
Part 2: Building the Fastest Passenger Jet Ever
Teamistry - December 05, 2022 05:05 - 45 minutesIn this episode, host Nastaran Tavakoli-Far and Lead Producer Pedro Mendes travel to the Musée Aeroscopia in Toulouse, France, where they stand spellbound marveling at a giant, glistening Air France Concorde. And they meet with nonagenarian Dudley Collard, a member of Concorde’s Aerodynamics Des...
Part 1: The Dream of Supersonic Flight
Teamistry - November 21, 2022 05:10 - 41 minutesIn the opening episode, host Nastaran Tavakoli-Far and producer Pedro Mendes set the stage for what’s going to be a supersonic journey documented in six parts—and also reflect on their personal connections to Concorde. You’ll hear about the monumental 1956 meeting of the Supersonic Transport Air...
Season 4: The Untold Story of Concorde
Teamistry - November 07, 2022 05:00 - 3 minutesPicture this: A flight from New York to London where your co-passengers are Princess Diana, Mick Jagger, and Sting. On the menu: caviar canapés, lobster, and champagne. Your journey takes a little over three hours – half of the time it takes today. And that one flight puts you in the history boo...
Where There's a Will (Smith), There's a Way
Teamistry - August 16, 2021 04:05 - 34 minutesIn March of 2020, as Will Smith is filming the biopic "King Richard," the emergence of COVID-19 abruptly shuts down all production. With unusual downtime and an urge to uplift his audience amid looming uncertainty, the actor meets with his production team at Westbrook Media to find a creative so...
Campbell’s Finds the Soup for their Soul
Teamistry - August 02, 2021 04:05 - 28 minutesThe can is Americana itself; the product indistinguishable from the ordinary contents. It's part of a quintessential American meal, soothing the hunger and warming the souls of families for more than a hundred years. But in 2001, a toxic atmosphere hung over the workers at The Campbell Soup Comp...
On a Mission for Equitable Internet in Detroit
Teamistry - July 19, 2021 04:05 - 29 minutesWhen the pandemic struck, many pivoted their lives online – to connect with family, to work, to attend school. But many others, living in cutoff communities, like several neighborhoods in the city of Detroit, Michigan, where generations of systemic racism and poor infrastructure has left them la...
Reinventing Hot Wheels
Teamistry - July 05, 2021 04:05 - 25 minutesIn 2016, a research video played in a conference room of Mattel Inc. caused deep concern. It showed an eight-year-old playing with iconic Hot Wheels™ toy cars. "Imagine doing this for an hour," the boy said, as if it was torture. The moment confirmed what many Mattel employees already knew: kids...
Saving an Indian Cricket League from Itself
Teamistry - June 21, 2021 04:00 - 35 minutesA cricket match played on April 18th 2008 between two city-based teams in India marks a historic moment in sports. It was the beginning of the Indian Premier League (IPL), a radically new tournament within the shortest format of cricket. Spearheaded by a flamboyant businessman, the IPL was to be...
When IBM Nearly Missed the Internet
Teamistry - June 07, 2021 04:05 - 29 minutesIn 1994, IBM sponsored the Winter Olympics and held exclusive rights to telecast the games. But Dave Grossman – an engineer at IBM – discovered Sun Microsystems had stolen the live feed and was posting the results on its website. This sparked the creation of a team of innovators that not only co...
Season 3: Time for Change
Teamistry - May 24, 2021 04:05 - 2 minutesIn Season 3 of Teamistry, filmmaker and host Gabriela Cowperthwaite returns to spotlight teams that not only achieve the impossible, but also inspire change. These stories of leadership and courage mark a turning point in how organizations—and even whole industries—are transformed for the bette...
Free Socks and Hats for You
Teamistry - December 11, 2020 18:28 - 1 minuteWe’ve built a quick survey about Teamistry we’d love for you to fill out. We want to know what ideas and lessons really stood out to you — and reward you with free swag, including some really cool hats and funky socks. To take the survey, just go to http://teamistrypodcast.com.
Patagonia’s Demand for Ethical Supply
Teamistry - November 30, 2020 05:05 - 28 minutesBefore corporate social responsibility was a popular concept, Patagonia declared its commitment to better outcomes for their workers, and the planet. They soon discovered that commitment would include major pitfalls, but it seems the more Patagonia doubles down on its values, the better it perfo...
A Shot at Change: The Making of a Vaccine
Teamistry - November 16, 2020 05:05 - 27 minutesIn the West African country of Burkina Faso in the 1980s, an 18-year-old boy is killed in the road. Why? A case of meningitis. The meningitis epidemic in Sub-Saharan Africa spurred a global race to find a vaccine, led by the founding of the Meningitis Vaccine Project (MVP). This network of docto...
When a picture is worth a thousand animals
Teamistry - November 02, 2020 05:05 - 30 minutesIn the desert plains of Northern Kenya, hundreds of people from around the world and different walks of life have gathered. The photographs they take with their GPS-enabled cameras might be humanity's best shot at saving an entire species. This is the story of Wildbook, an artificial intelligenc...
When a Picture is Worth a Thousand Animals
Teamistry - November 02, 2020 05:05 - 30 minutesIn the desert plains of Northern Kenya, hundreds of people from around the world and different walks of life have gathered. The photographs they take with their GPS-enabled cameras might be humanity's best shot at saving an entire species. This is the story of Wildbook, an artificial intelligenc...
Mission Impossible: The Thai Cave Rescue
Teamistry - October 19, 2020 04:05 - 35 minutesIn the summer of 2018, 12 Thai teenagers and their 25-year-old soccer coach got stuck deep inside the labyrinthine – and flooding – Tham Luang caves of Thailand’s Chiang Rai province. In this episode of Teamistry, host Gabriela Cowperthwaite takes us inside the caves and alongside the people ass...
Iceland vs. COVID: Containing a Pandemic
Teamistry - October 05, 2020 04:05 - 29 minutesEarly in the COVID-19 pandemic, Iceland had become the worst-hit country in Scandinavia. But it reversed its fate, without a full lockdown. And to date, Iceland has seen very few deaths. How? Largely because of the harmonious collaboration of "The Trinity" – Iceland’s chief epidemiologist, Direc...
Seiko's Duelling Factories
Teamistry - September 21, 2020 04:05 - 32 minutesIn the aftermath of World War II, Japan must rebuild its economy. Certain products become vital exports in the revitalization effort, including the wristwatch. Seiko leaps to the forefront of the recovery, but there's a problem: their watches aren't good. The company decides to bring R&D in-hous...
Teamistry Season 2: The Team of Teams
Teamistry - September 07, 2020 04:05 - 2 minutesIn season one of Teamistry, we put the spotlight on teams behind the scenes, the people responsible for some of the greatest achievements of our times. Like the team of astronomers who gave us the first-ever photograph of a black hole, and the team that averted a nuclear meltdown at Fukushima Da...
The Team that Fashioned Apollo 11
Teamistry - June 22, 2020 04:05 - 30 minutesWhen Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon for the first time, we don't actually see his face. We see his moonsuit. That moonsuit — in effect — is Neil Armstrong; an inseparable part of this historic moment. While the spacesuit kept him alive to tell that story in his own words, what went unnoticed...
The United States of Compromise
Teamistry - June 08, 2020 04:05 - 26 minutesThe great American experiment was about to fail. On the eve of the Constitutional Convention of 1787 – where the U.S. Constitution began – the French minister to America wrote home to his superiors in Paris, "What part of the United States would you like to take when it falls apart?" Disunity be...
Finding the Way to Google Maps
Teamistry - May 25, 2020 04:05 - 25 minutesIt's hard to remember what it took to get around before the invention of Google Maps. But the technology has changed everything from daily routes to road trips to navigating unknown territory. Because of Google Maps, the entire globe seems reachable. But the road to inventing Google Maps? That's...
The Brilliant Success of Shackleton’s Failure
Teamistry - May 11, 2020 04:05 - 31 minutesSir Ernest Shackleton wanted to be the first man to walk across the Antarctic continent. In 1914, with a crew of 28 men, he set sail on the Endurance to complete the first “Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition." But harsh winds and frigid temperatures threatened the voyage from the start, and in ...
Saving Fukushima
Teamistry - April 27, 2020 04:05 - 26 minutesOn March 11, 2011 Japan was struck by a 9.1-magnitude earthquake, the most powerful in the country's recorded history. But the real horror had only just begun. A 14-meter-high tsunami created by the seismic event followed, sending giant waves of seawater crashing into the the Fukushima Daiichi N...
The Car that Saved Ford
Teamistry - April 13, 2020 04:05 - 26 minutesIn 1985, the automobile giant Ford was teetering on the edge of financial collapse. Faced with internal chaos, an uninspiring product line, and fierce competition from Japanese cars – they needed a sensation. Enter: The Ford Taurus. This breakthrough model didn't just rescue the company, it spar...
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