Quick Thought – Your Introverted Employees Probably Hate Team-Building

Quick Thought – Your Introverted Employees Probably Hate Team-Building

Honestly, I do not know what HR expert ever came up with the idea of team-building, or culture-building, events for a workplace. As an introvert, I can assure you that announcements of upcoming team building events can be translated into one thing. Forced interaction.  Ugh. Just, no. There are likely to be a few folks…

Linked – Less is more: The Role of Data Retention Policies in Cybsesecurtity Preparedness
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Linked – Less is more: The Role of Data Retention Policies in Cybsesecurtity Preparedness

And yet, despite this, I see organizations holding on to information for decades, “just in case” they might need it. “From a cybersecurity perspective, the more personal information a company maintains, the more information it has to lose.  Consequently, the more information a company loses, the higher the financial and reputational costs.” Oh, and the…

Linked – AccessData announces AD eDiscovery for Relativity
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Linked – AccessData announces AD eDiscovery for Relativity

It hasn’t completely disappeared from the AccessData website, but I can’t help but wonder if they are giving up on Summation as a competitor to Relativity at this point. Anyone hear anything official or otherwise from AD? “The integration involves a new direct export option. AccessData users can manage collection, search, preservation, legal hold and…

The Hiring Process is Broken

The Hiring Process is Broken

Yeah I know, not exactly a shocking observation. We’ve all been through horrific interviewing processes, and even the Wall Street Journal is writing about people who got into a job only to realize it wasn’t what they were promised. Clearly, we have a problem. The question is, why? There are multiple answers to that question,…

Linked – The First Rule of Microsoft Excel—Don’t Tell Anyone You’re Good at It
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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…