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Linked: It’s Official: Self-care Leads to Long-term Business Success
The article is directed at founders, but I think we can all see similar hours and stresses in the legal and eDiscovery industries, no? “Over 50 per cent of owners work nine hour-plus days and 43 per cent work weekends. But long hours don’t make you more effective: you’re wasting time spinning wheels because you’re…
Linked – How to Be a Great Networker (When You Hate Networking)
In my experience, this is a great idea. 3. Get in line. Similar to the last point, a long line – say for food or a drink – is one of the easiest spots to network. Because rather than having to go up to people on your own, you are already standing among strangers and it’s…
Linked – Security Experts Warn Congress That the Internet of Things Could Kill People
“For example, Schneier and other experts testified that the same poor security exists in computers making their way into hospitals, including those used to manage elevators and ventilation systems. It’s not hard to imagine a fatal disaster, which makes it imperative that the government step in to fix this “market failure,” he said. The problems…
Linked: Coronavirus: Managers impressed by workers’ productivity at home
It’s a UK survey, but the results do not surprise me. “A survey of more than 1,000 UK office workers by Hoxby, a virtual agency and consultancy firm, also suggests managers have been pleasantly surprised by teams’ performance from home during the COVID-19 pandemic. 52% of leaders said workers had even been more productive than…
Linked – Google+ Will Shut Down After User Data Breach, Report Says
This is pretty much the opposite of “Don’t Be Evil”. “A Google+ security breach gave outside developers access to the private data of hundreds of thousands of the social network’s users between 2015 and March 2018, according to a Wall Street Journal report. Google neglected to report the breach to the public, allegedly out of…
Linked – The First Rule of Microsoft Excel—Don’t Tell Anyone You’re Good at It
Are you great with Excel? Do you feel this way about it? “If someone tells you that they ‘just have a few Excel sheets’ that they want help with, run the other way,” tweeted 32-year-old statistician Andrew Althouse. “Also, you may want to give them a fake phone number, possibly a fake name. It may…
