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Please Don’t Take Chances with Stalkerware
ByMike McBride April 17, 2023April 16, 2023 Reading Time: 1 minute

Let me repeat what I’ve said before. If you are in an abusive situation and your partner has had access to your phone, leave it behind. If you suspect any of your devices had these tools installed, do not take any chances with them. Yes, getting a new phone and changing all of your passwords will be a pain in the ass. It will suck to set up a new email and change the default email address for all of your online accounts.

It still beats getting tracked down by a violent ex-partner. Do not make light of this. This is life and death stuff. Trying to remove stalker ware incorrectly might kill people. It shouldn’t be that way, but it is. Don’t take the chance.

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Career

Linked – If You Were Arrested for Being a Leader, Would There Be Enough Evidence to Convict You?
ByMike McBride April 14, 2023April 14, 2023 Reading Time: 1 minute

No one wants a boss when they deserve a leader.

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Linked – Stop stereotyping Gen Z. Focus instead on why we’re disillusioned about the future of work.
ByMike McBride April 13, 2023April 13, 2023 Reading Time: 3 minutes

I know some young folks. I work with some young folks. The stereotype that the younger generations don’t want to work is false, in my opinion. What they don’t want to do is work the same way we have for ages because they recognize that it’s not a sound system.

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Linked – The 1 Major Skill That Most Employees Say Their Bosses Lack
ByMike McBride April 11, 2023April 11, 2023 Reading Time: 1 minute

Every poor manager I’ve ever dealt with has been a poor communicator. Almost every shortcoming or problem I’ve seen people have with a manager or coworker could be filed under a problem with communication. It’s THE thing in the workplace. Ideas, expectations, priorities, and everything else in the workplace come down to the ability to communicate. If you cannot communicate clearly, you are lost, and the people who work for you or lost.

Yet how many organizations promote the top performer or their most senior individual contributor without ever considering whether they are good communicators? And how many prioritize teaching them how to communicate as managers?

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Career

Remote Work Requires Different Management Skills
ByMike McBride April 10, 2023April 10, 2023 Reading Time: 2 minutes

I’ll let you go to the article to read about those non-negotiables, but I agree. I think this is the real problem when it comes to bosses complaining about how remote isn’t a good option. They haven’t managed a remote team; they’ve been managing a team that works outside the office. There is a difference.

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Career

Linked – The French Understand That Work Sucks
ByMike McBride April 6, 2023April 6, 2023 Reading Time: 2 minutes

Everything that brings us the most happiness and spreads that happiness across society gets set aside because we are supposed to identify ourselves based on our jobs.

So yeah, maybe the French won’t necessarily still get to retire with a pension at 62. (though Nathan does a good job of explaining why that isn’t impossible, this was a choice made to protect the wealthy from being taxed, after all.) I still think many of us could learn something from the French, and Europe in general, about where our jobs fit into the fuller picture of our lives. If you aren’t making time to “live,” what’s the point of all that time spent at our jobs?

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