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…
This is a really interesting read from a sociology and psychology perspective, but where that enters the realm of the workplace is right here: Researchers for Gallup found that having strong social connections at work makes employees more likely to be engaged with their jobs and produce higher-quality work, and less likely to fall sick…
This is just dumb: “Manafort emailed Gates a .pdf version of the real 2016 DMI P&L, which showed a loss of more than $600,000,” the indictment claims. “Gates converted that .pdf into a Word document so that it could be edited, which Gates sent back to Manafort. Manafort altered the Word document by adding more…
Interesting survey results “The survey of 30 federal judges revealed that many continue to see a lack of e-discovery awareness in courts—only 23 percent strongly agreed or somewhat agreed that “the typical attorney possesses the legal and technical subject matter knowledge required to effectively counsel clients on e-discovery matters,” while 47 percent somewhat disagreed (none…
There really are so many choices. Perhaps some of the advice in this article, not to mention the conferences they talk about, will help you. As for me, I’m currently planning on being back at ILTACON in August. Haven’t been there in a couple of years, so I’m looking forward to it. But I know…
This is clearly true. “Facebook has created a centrally designed internet. It’s a lamer, shittier looking internet. It’s just not as cool as an internet that is a big, chaotic space filled with tons of independently operating websites who are able to make a living because they make something cool that people want to see.”…