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The Royal Family Provides an Example of What Happens When People Are Left Without Information
ByMike McBride March 26, 2024March 25, 2024 Reading Time: 2 minutes

The people who follow the Royal Family were left without further information about Kate after her original surgery. We can argue about what information they were entitled to, and I’d agree they weren’t entitled to any. Still, we saw a large group of people filling in the blanks with some of the wildest conspiracy theories we’ve seen anywhere when no information was forthcoming.

Imagine what happens on Teams or Slack about your company when information is unavailable.

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Career | Training

The Shelf Life of a College Degree
ByMike McBride March 22, 2024March 21, 2024 Reading Time: 2 minutes

You’d better be adaptable because your job will change whether you do or not.

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SocialNetworking | Tech

Linked – Actually, the internet’s always been this bad
ByMike McBride March 21, 2024March 21, 2024 Reading Time: 1 minute

The study authors pointed out that they only researched text-based platforms. Video platforms may be worse in terms of toxicity. However, that hasn’t been my experience; they seem pretty similar to me, but that’s just anecdotal. They also pointed out that current-day social networks are much larger. Many more people see the toxicity on Facebook than people who saw a Usenet post in the 90s. That also means there is more total toxicity. It might only be 7-10% of the content, but the content generated by 500 million users dwarfs the content generated by 10,000 users. So there’s more of it; we are more aware of it, but the percentage hasn’t changed much.

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Career

Dell Is Going Through a Layoff That You Won’t Notice
ByMike McBride March 18, 2024March 21, 2024 Reading Time: 2 minutes

If you’ve heard the term “quiet firing” recently, this is what it means. It is not directly cutting head count but making it likely that some percentage of employees will leave due to your decisions.

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Career

Is It Time to Retire Values Like Resiliency and Grit in the Workplace?
ByMike McBride March 15, 2024March 14, 2024 Reading Time: 2 minutes

We are seeing a demand to create jobs that don’t require ever-growing amounts of grit and resilience. It’s not the worst idea I’ve heard. It places responsibility where it belongs—on employers. Instead of pushing people to break and replacing them with the next person and repeating the cycle, it allows workers to have a career and a life outside of work. I don’t think that is too much to expect.

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Training

Linked – Employees need AI skills — but what does that training look like?
ByMike McBride March 14, 2024March 14, 2024 Reading Time: 2 minutes

Training will continue to consist of identifying the necessary skills to get the work done and teaching those skills. There is an adjustment coming to those skills, but we’ve faced many adjustments.

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