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Worth Reading – Good Leaders Presume Team Members Feel Undervalued and Underappreciated
ByMike McBride June 4, 2026June 4, 2026 Reading Time: 1 minute

It’s a difficult thing, in the busy work world we all live in, to make sure your people are looked after and appreciated. It’s very easy to take them for granted because you trust them to do their work. I’m not saying you should micromanage them, but showing an interest in them and their work would help them feel like part of the team. Letting other things get in the way creates an issue. One that may lead your best performers to leave for a place where they feel more appreciated.

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Artificial Intelligence

Worth Reading – AI is making journalistic language more repetitive and predictable – and it’s a problem for all of us
ByMike McBride June 2, 2026 Reading Time: 1 minute

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Career | Mental Health

Create Certainty Where You Can
ByMike McBride May 30, 2026May 29, 2026 Reading Time: 1 minute

Like it or not, your team is dealing with a ridiculous amount of uncertainty in and out of the office. Most of it is beyond our control. When we have the opportunity to create less of it, we should do so. We have the opportunity to make a difference for our team, as human beings, just by communicating and setting clear expectations. Why wouldn’t we?

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RIM

Worth Reading – RIM Is Moving Upstream
ByMike McBride May 26, 2026June 2, 2026 Reading Time: 2 minutes

Instead of starting your work in a blank Word document or spreadsheet, start in Copilot chat, then move it to a Copilot page, which is a Loop file. From there, you drop part of the page, a component, into chat for live collaboration with your team, or you work together in the Loop app, with Copilot assisting again and drop the new draft into an email, linked to the web version for easier editing by the entire team, until finally, at the very end of this process, you create a PDF of the final product, and add it to your “records” location.

Thus, only the final version ever gets stored as a record. All the prior versions are gone. Work that is still in progress is not a record, but accessible to AI tools. This is the conundrum for RIM.

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Tech

Worth Reading – More than half of all Polymarket “long shot” bets on military action pay off
ByMike McBride May 21, 2026 Reading Time: 1 minute

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Mental Health

Worth Reading – Most workers told Monster their job harms their mental health
ByMike McBride May 13, 2026 Reading Time: 2 minutes

If you look at the contributors to the mental health damage, though, you see things that are avoidable if organizations wanted to avoid them. Fix poor management, address understaffing, pay people what they’re worth, and don’t lay off workers just to tweak the stock price. Unfortunately, in the current political and economic climate, I don’t see enough organizations that want to do any of that.

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