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Weekly Links

Shared Links (weekly) May 14, 2023

ByMike McBride May 14, 2023May 13, 2023 Reading Time: 1 minute

Ten Great Books on How to Learn Better
Dialogue Over Surveys
This Is How To Overcome Burnout: 6 Secrets From Research
A New Low For Hackers – Threatening to Disclose Patient Medical, Mental Health Records as Ransom for Payment– Makes sense. If the organization won’t pay the ransom maybe the patients have more incentive to do so. I expect this to start targeting gender-affirming and women’s health in the US soon, right?
The Elephant in Your Office Has a Mental Illness
The decline of time-based law firms– “Lawyers’ billed hours constitute the inventory of law firms and the foundation of their profits. Legally trained AI will decimate those hours. What happens then?”
Shadow IT & SaaS remain major security threats!
Lonely at the Top: How to Help New People Managers Step Into Leadership
Moving eDiscovery U-P-S-T-R-E-A-M
Companies Are Hoarding Personal Data About You. Here’s How to Get Them to Delete It.

Microsoft

Will Microsoft Start Un-bundling M365 Licenses?

ByMike McBride May 11, 2023May 11, 2023 Reading Time: 2 minutes

If Teams bundled with Office is anti-competitive, what other tools available in M365 could likewise be considered anti-competitive?

We await the results of the EU investigation.

Career

Do You Know Why Employees Leave? Do You Know Why They Stay?

ByMike McBride May 9, 2023May 10, 2023 Reading Time: 4 minutes

My point isn’t to toot my own horn. It’s to give you a concrete example of what a difference sitting and talking to your employees can make in terms of understanding what works for them, or doesn’t work for them in the workplace. A survey has a purpose, especially when you realize that meeting one on one with all of your employees doesn’t scale very far. If you really want to know what’s going on, though, don’t wait for someone to leave so you conduct an exit interview. A stay interview might prevent them from leaving in the first place.

And for god’s sake, conduct exit interviews too, and be willing to act on them. These people are telling you what went wrong, why wouldn’t you want to know that?

Career | Training

Employees and Employers Have Roles to Play in Career Development

ByMike McBride May 8, 2023May 7, 2023 Reading Time: 1 minute

It is in your best interest to have employees who are growing and advancing in their careers. One is because they continue to become more valuable to the organization, which you need. Secondly, as they grow and become more valuable they are also more likely to stay. Turnover is costly. The organization can provide mentors and other resources that would be more difficult to do on their own. In return, they get employees who grow with the organization. Who wouldn’t want that?

Weekly Links

Shared Links (weekly) May 7, 2023

ByMike McBride May 7, 2023May 6, 2023 Reading Time: 1 minute

The new way of work – “It takes a different set of leadership and management skills to create the conditions for effective distributed work. But it’s incredibly powerful when you get it right.”
Google Rolls Out Passkey Support, Signaling Major Shift in Online Security
Lawyers and Cybersecurity: Security By Obscurity Is Not Security
Chatbot Hallucinations Require Bloggers to Make Smart Use of AI
OPINION: Chat GPT Lists Its Own Flaws
3 Reasons to Pair Caution with Artificial Intelligence
Ten ESI Protocol Lessons Learned from Case Law Rulings
The Ultimate Manager Guide to Virtual Team Building
Less Data #6: Explosion of new state consumer privacy laws compels deletion of unnecessary data
When Bossware and Employee Data Privacy Laws Meet– Interesting look at how these two things are going to run head-first into each other.
How to Convince Your Campus That MFA Is Worth the Effort– The same arguments can be made in the workplace and with your family and friends.
Crafting Compelling Career Stories: Be Memorable In Your Interviews
The 100+ People You Should Follow on LinkedIn– for job search advice and career information.
Beat Job Search Depression Before It Beats You

Security | SocialNetworking

Congressional Think Tank Sees the Problem with Age Verification – Members Not so Much

ByMike McBride May 6, 2023May 5, 2023 Reading Time: 2 minutes

Proving your identity and your age eliminates the ability for anyone to remain anonymous. You might argue that is a good thing, but I’ll take the opposite side. There are plenty of reasons for someone to remain anonymous online, and why we’d be worse off eliminating that. Whistleblowers, political dissidents of fascist governments, victims of childhood and spousal abuse, people dealing with mental health issues, women, the LGBTQ community, and many others have legitimate reasons to fear being identified. Do we want to eliminate them all from the public space?

Month: May 2023