This makes sense. How often do your coworkers send you something in a Teams chat and you simply click on it? Have you considered the possibility that it wasn’t actually your coworker but someone who was able to gain access to their account?
It’s easy, though incorrect, to dismiss worrying about hacking on the basis that “I have nothing to hide” so if someone gets our information, it’s not that big of a deal. And, in fact, someone getting your credit card information might not really end up being that big of a deal to you when it’s the credit card company that has to do all the hard work to fix it. For a consumer, it might just be some inconvenience. But the real danger to me has always been the risk of someone manipulating your data and causing issues. Imagine someone hacking the DMV and marking you as someone whose driver’s license has been suspended, or hacking your phone’s GPS, indicating you were somewhere you were not.
Or, a hacker fabricating a plot to overthrow the government:
This post is a little specific to Nuix users, which I know is not something I’ve been posting for a while now, but I had the opportunity to talk to Bill Potter from Rampiva about a week ahead of the release of their new tool and wanted to share some of that conversation with you.
You can read about Baseline here.
In essence, the idea is to solve an interesting problem that has existed with Nuix Workstation users for years, finding an elegant tool that lets you know just how much work your people and your technology are doing.
have often been on record as saying that leading a remote team requires over-communication. You simply cannot assume information is being shared or understood if you don’t actively communicate it yourself.
The same goes for tooting your own horn. You simply cannot assume that people you haven’t communicated with directly about your contributions are going to know about them. We like to think that compliments and acknowledgments go beyond the immediate conversations we are having but we can’t assume that.
It can be very easy to lose sight of this on Social Media but it can also be easy to lose sight of this in the workplace or in our own careers as well. When we reward certain measurements people respond by doing more of that thing. This makes sense if your goal is to simply attract more attention to yourself. For social media maybe that is your goal. If you are representing a brand on social media, yeah that is probably what you want. However, as an individual, I think you have to ask yourself if getting more eyeballs this way causes you to actually undermine your own goals.
Sadly, most managers just don’t know how to do this. We’ve lived in a world where hard work = hours worked for so long that we don’t know how to do anything else, even though it was also never really true. There have always been people who “work” long hours just to look good without ever really getting anything done, and others who get work done very efficiently and see no reason to sit at their desk longer and play that game. (And everything in between these two extremes!)
What we haven’t done in many cases is figure out better ways to measure who is getting actual work done, because sometimes that’s hard to do.