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The Tech Industry – Which Game Are We Playing?
ByMike McBride August 28, 2023August 27, 2023 Reading Time: 4 minutes

But in other areas of life, that’s not at all how the game works. War, business, education, etc. are not finite games. It’s not clear who all of the competitors are, the rules change and there’s no one “score” that everyone has agreed upon. Maybe most importantly, it doesn’t end at the allocated time, it goes on and on with some of the competitors giving up over time and dropping out of the game.

The problem Simon identifies is that when the game is infinite, but you play it as if it were finite, you end up in a quagmire.

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Career

A Business Lesson From Reading Quit: The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away
ByMike McBride August 24, 2023August 24, 2023 Reading Time: 4 minutes

She uses these stories as a jumping-off point to talk about goals and failure. When the goal is to finish the marathon, anything other than that is a failure. Despite the change in circumstances, the risk of doing more damage to themselves, and the fact that no one would find fault in them for stopping, they went on with this myopic focus on hitting their goal.

It got me thinking about OKRs. You know, those quarterly, semi-annual, or annual goals we set for employees during performance reviews, and then measure them solely on whether they hit those goals or not. As if the world doesn’t change in the middle of the time period and forces us to react in a way that might not be part of our stated goals.

It also got me thinking about company-wide goals like market share, revenue, etc.

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Mental Health

Does the Workplace Have a Role in Our Current Mental Health Crisis?
ByMike McBride August 23, 2023August 23, 2023 Reading Time: 3 minutes

So, while I wouldn’t place the blame for all of our anxiety coming from a pandemic, climate, racism, sexism, and violence, I do believe the workplace has a role to play when it comes to supporting the human beings who work for you in dealing with all of that, and a responsibility to not add to it. Unfortunately, I see a lot of leaders who don’t seem to care about either of those things. IMHO, they don’t deserve to have employees.

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SocialNetworking

AI Produced Images and Reality
ByMike McBride August 22, 2023August 22, 2023 Reading Time: 1 minute

Be skeptical. Learn how to identify AI-generated images, and look for inconsistencies. And, always identify who benefits from your attention on these posts.

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Training

Linked – It’s Time to Face the Three Challenges of Learning
ByMike McBride August 21, 2023August 22, 2023 Reading Time: 2 minutes

That being said, this isn’t going to change. If the people who work for you aren’t continuously learning your organization is going to fall behind competitors who are learning. The folks who want to learn will end up working for those competitiors. You’ll be left with a group of employees who are comfortable doing the same thing they’ve always done and aren’t interested in learning anything new.

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Career

Failure to Communicate With Employees
ByMike McBride August 17, 2023August 17, 2023 Reading Time: 2 minutes

How does anyone work like this? Is it possible that 95% of those working for your organization don’t even get the company strategy? Probably because 93% of them feel like they aren’t being communicated with clearly.

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