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Linked: Remote working jobs: 5 problems we need to solve in 2022
Sadly, most managers just don’t know how to do this. We’ve lived in a world where hard work = hours worked for so long that we don’t know how to do anything else, even though it was also never really true. There have always been people who “work” long hours just to look good without ever really getting anything done, and others who get work done very efficiently and see no reason to sit at their desk longer and play that game. (And everything in between these two extremes!)
What we haven’t done in many cases is figure out better ways to measure who is getting actual work done, because sometimes that’s hard to do.

Richard Branson on Trusting Your Employees
This Freakonomics interview with the founder of the Virgin group was interesting for a lot of reasons, but this exchange I found very telling: BRANSON: Well I mean, I think, I find that some American companies are anything but good at motivating people. And I find that hard to understand, because if you’ve got a…

Linked – The Paradise Papers, Nuix and the repurposing of discovery tools and skills
Chris is right about this, as eDiscovery tools and skills become more and more focused on “finding the right information”, they cross over into a lot of other areas, investigations, information governance, HR, and on and on. “The object lesson for lawyers? The skills and tools which you originally acquire for eDiscovery open doors to…
E-Discovery Certification For Litigation Support Folks?
In all of the recent discussion about creating a certification for Litigation Support professionals to measure their proficiency in working with electronic discovery, I’ve always felt a strong push against the idea, but could never really articulate what about it bothered me. Today, in reading Chris Dale’s blog post about it, it clicked for me….

Linked – Why Small-Business Owners Are Easy Prey for Hackers
This makes a lot of sense, keeping up with computer technology and security is an ongoing, and time-consuming, task. Hard to do that, and also run a business. Many owners believe they don’t have the resources — human or financial — to keep their companies safe, which takes keeping up with frequent security updates for…
Bad Rules Are Broken
I was reading Doug Cornelius post about Compliance Lessons from the Tour de France, well, because I enjoy the Tour, and had to see what sort of compliance lesson was being learned. 😉 I’ll let you go read it yourself rather than try to rephrase Doug’s point, but the last paragraph of his post really…