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Linked – New data shows shortsighted companies will try to replace workers with AI
ByMike McBride April 10, 2024April 9, 2024 Reading Time: 1 minute

Many people who make hiring and firing decisions don’t think about AI as a tool for better work-life balance or increased productivity in their workforce. They are planning on replacing their workforce. These are likely the same ones who view layoffs as a strategy to tweak stock prices and see employees as numbers on a financial statement instead of human beings. Increasingly, they are being put in charge by shareholders who see employees similarly – a bothersome cost.

We should not be surprised that younger generations want to blow it all up.

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Linked – How To Communicate Better At Work Easily And Accomplish More
ByMike McBride April 2, 2024April 4, 2024 Reading Time: 2 minutes

Of all the skills that Liz writes about to help us all communicate better, this is the key. If the leaders in your workplace are not communicating, and we see how important listening is to that communication as well, the rest of the team is unlikely to be doing it well either. It’s a modeled behavior. When leaders are open to connection, listen carefully to their reports, and work toward clarity and agreement, that flows down into how the team interacts with each other. When leaders only ever issue directives with no consideration for the humans who report to them, you’ll see that same behavior across the team.

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Linked – Microsoft Says Copilot Users Would Love It More If They Wrote Better Prompts
ByMike McBride March 29, 2024April 1, 2024 Reading Time: 2 minutes

AI might eventually change the world. However, the technology that exists can be disappointing. Microsoft and other AI champions need to accept that and work to improve it. Telling people they aren’t prompting correctly isn’t how to get buy-in. It’s elitest for no reason.

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Career

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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