I recently purchased a new car, for the first time since 2002. One of the first things I noticed was how “connected” it is, to my phone, to trip data, to various apps, to it’s own internal information etc.
Naturally, as an eDiscovery professional, I immediately started wondering about how that data is handled, and potential uses for it. I think I’ll check out this guide to learn more about it. 😉
Unspoken, but hinted around, in this article, is that employees who aren’t trusted, probably also don’t trust their employers, and then this is where we end up. “People who didn’t trust their employers were three times more likely to say that they felt tense on the job, and they were four times more likely to…
Today at work I was being helpful and covering the helpdesk for an hour so that our helpdesk folks could have a meeting with their manager. Being the always-on kind of guy, I posted to twitter from my phone about doing that and what it was like. In fact, I mentioned that it was kind…
One of the bigger management issues surrounding the remote work model is how and when to communicate. I’m an advocate of more communication, always. I’m a huge advocate of a lot more communication with a remote team.
But, we also have to think about the best way to work together. There are lots, and lots, of meetings that are designed to create better communication but aren’t necessary. Most of them are recurring meetings that no one ever cancels, even when there’s nothing urgent to discuss. Just because we’ve always had this meeting, and we always will.
That’s not a good reason to meet. At the end of the day, if your check-ins or project status meetings are nothing more than a “here’s where we are this week,” we might consider whether it makes more sense for people to send an email instead. Or even a Teams/Slack chat? It’s the same information, but no one has to plan their day around it.
After taking a read of this post, Start with the Why, and the linked Ted presentation, I’ve been thinking about software trainers and how much we could learn from this. It’s easy, when teaching people how to use software, to focus on how to get things done. Obviously, those details are somewhat important, you buy…
Where I will disagree with Doug though is when he says few people are talking about this. I have this conversation with clients, peers, and others, every single day, sometimes multiple times in a day.
Everyone is talking about it, but they aren’t talking about it in regards to email, rather it is within collaboration platforms like Teams and Slack where shared files are always links, and those links may be in a variety of locations.
Those linked files matter, but not in the same way an email attachment used it, and legal teams are going to have to understand all of that. Is your team ready?
I’m not exactly sure what I thought I was getting into when I decided to give Mr. Tweet a try. They advertise their service as “Who Should I Follow? – Mr. Tweet looks through your extended network to help you build effective relationships on Twitter.” To me, that meant they were going to check out…