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    Linked: Five Skills That Help You Lead Remotely

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    I like all of Kevin’s 5 skills, but this one to me is paramount because when I’ve been part of a remote team, every single failure ultimately came back to this: “Be a flexible communicator Certainly, leaders must be good communicators. But when your team is spread hither and yon, you must be proficient and…

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    Linked: A Data-Driven Approach to Identifying — and Retaining — Top Employees

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 2 minutes

    Of course, the reality is, and everyone who has ever been passed over for recognition and promotion by someone who “looked” like they were getting a lot done when they really weren’t, know this, most managers who relied on “seeing” their reports while walking around were never really that good at identifying who is doing the best job.

    But now, that people will continue to work all over the place, and using collaborative workspaces that have data available about who is doing what, and who is communicating with whom, it’s going to be all about the data. The tools are there. Will managers use them, and get better at managing talent?

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    What I’m Sharing (weekly) Aug 2, 2020

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

    Flexibility and transparency: The keys to good remote leadership

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    Mothers Are Paying the Price at Work for Coronavirus
    -“Preventing a mass exodus of mothers from the workforce must be a priority.”

    What Does Private Browsing Do? Less Than You Probably Think

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    – Aww that’s a shame. Not.

    The Biggest Lesson from the Twitter Breach
    – “Focus on the vulnerability of humans”

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    The End of Life Hacking
    – If you were around in the early days of blogging, this may make you laugh, or cringe. Maybe both.

    Microsoft told employees to work from home. One consequence was brutal

    – The lesson, management and employees need to create boundaries around when you’re working, and when you’re NOT.

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    Linked: How Different Personality Types Cope with an Always-On Culture

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

    The issue in mid-2021 is that there are a lot of people who have found ways to balance that suits them, and they are all a little different. So, after a year of figuring out the best way to handle our work and personal lives, individually, companies are forcing everyone back into the same template. The flexibility we had to find what works best for us as an individual, is gone. We all have to adjust back to whatever works for the CEO making this decision, as opposed to what works for us as individuals.

    It’s hard to imagine that there are so many managers and executives who don’t understand this. Or maybe they just don’t care?

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    New Addition to The Home Office

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

    A.k.a:  “Things you can do when you work at home, that you can’t do in a cubicle.” Such as take a few minutes and get some aerobic exercise when things are slow, or when you’re waiting for data to process/load/index. When you work in a cube, your coworkers might not appreciate that. 😉   Follow…

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    Why would you do this?

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 2 minutes

    I don’t get asked this often, but it’s happened more than once, and it’s something I want to talk about. Occasionally when someone discovers my blog, and sees how involved I am in on-line communities, they’ll ask “why do you spend so much of your personal time blogging, and reading other blogs about your job?…

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