Linked – What If the Next Big Social Media App Is … Nothing?
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Linked – What If the Next Big Social Media App Is … Nothing?

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 3 minutes

At some point, everyone who wants to have an Instagram account has an Instagram account and is using it as often as they want to. You can’t have huge growth spurts. You can only play around the edges and manipulate users to stay online to grow and that’s not a winning strategy. Yet it’s what shareholders and venture funds require. They’ve created a world where growing less than 20% per year might as well be failing. It’s sure going to look like failing when you start cutting jobs and doing stock buybacks. Those used to be desperate measures, but now they’re just a Tuesday at the office.

Linked – Productivity is outdated. Here’s why.
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Linked – Productivity is outdated. Here’s why.

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 2 minutes

When you have that blurring, though, the idea that you can measure productivity the same way as you did when we spent 8 hours building a widget seems a little overly simplistic, doesn’t it?

The challenge is finding the thing we can measure to evaluate whether people are accomplishing the goals we set for them, but those goals can’t be the “number of things or hours” when the work is so much more than that.

Linked – Facebook layoffs are a reminder that your job won’t love you back
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Linked – Facebook layoffs are a reminder that your job won’t love you back

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 2 minutes

Nevertheless, the most significant point of the article below isn’t to argue about the negatives of being a public company or not, it’s to point out what should have been obvious but too many people in tech have lost sight of. A company that consistently reminds you that you’re part of the family and that everyone should view it that way and dedicate themselves accordingly will let you go in a heartbeat when things aren’t going as well as they’d like.

And people wonder why quiet quitting is all the rage.

Linked – Why It’s Virtually Impossible to Moderate Social Media Sites
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Linked – Why It’s Virtually Impossible to Moderate Social Media Sites

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

I’m sure at some point, Elon Musk thought for sure that he could buy Twitter and do a better job of content moderation. I’m sure most of us have had a similar thought. We just didn’t have $44 billion lying around.

He did, and now he gets to realize something the rest of us should know by now. There’s no easy way to do it.

Linked: Maybe You Don’t Have the Skills You Need to Manage Your Remote Workforce
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Linked: Maybe You Don’t Have the Skills You Need to Manage Your Remote Workforce

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

Suppose you or your management forces staff back into the office because you need the face-time. Or because you don’t think your team can collaborate, you don’t know who is being productive, etc. Instead of forcing it and running the risk of losing your best performers, ask yourself if what you need to do is manage differently.

There’s no reason for promotions to be based on face time. With all of our technology, there is also no excuse for not collaborating or communicating effectively. Managing a remote team is not impossible. It’s just different. It requires that you change the way you manage.