Will Microsoft Start Un-bundling M365 Licenses?
If Teams bundled with Office is anti-competitive, what other tools available in M365 could likewise be considered anti-competitive?
We await the results of the EU investigation.
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Being #OpentoWork and Stigma
Given recent events, I faced the question posed in this post and came to the same conclusion. Should you post that you’re #OpenToWork? A tale of two labor markets. Economic theory suggests that the people laid off or searching for a job in boom times are different from those laid off in a recession. If…
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Linked – The cost of tolerating underperformance — and overlooking your high performers
The most engaged and productive people in your workplace also need room to grow and develop. Not offering that to them is inviting them to go elsewhere. Not offering career development to your high performers because you are wasting all of those resources to fix your lowest performers will not cut it. They deserve more than that, and someone will give it to them.
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Shared Links (weekly) April 2, 2023
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Experts Constantly Adapt and Change to Deliver Exceptional Results
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Episode 101: Understanding Possession, Custody, and Control in E-Discovery
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Look After You: 5 Tips for When You Need to Take A Sick Day When Working from Home
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Senator Warner’s RESTRICT Act Is Designed To Create The Great Firewall Of America
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Neurodiversity at work– “you will be working in a neurodiverse environment.” – even if you don’t acknowledge it.
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How to start building mental health awareness in your organization
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Tech Press Slowly Figuring Out That Banning TikTok Doesn’t Fix The Actual Problem
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Just Because ChatBots Can’t Think Doesn’t Mean They Can’t Lie– We’re about to find out just how many lies they can tell and how much of the internet will be full of them.
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Fake Images of Donald Trump Being Arrested Shows the Power of AI
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When you need to help your team through change: 3 main manager responsibilities
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Linked – 6 Problems L&D Can’t “Out-train”
I’ve also spoken to some in-house trainers who see this up close. People come to them because they lack some knowledge and hope the training will help them because their manager hasn’t given them clear direction. They don’t realize that they haven’t been getting a clear direction. They assume there is some skill or knowledge they are missing. Where do you go when there’s a skill you need? To Training and Development!
But the trainer can’t give you that clear direction about your job. That has to come from your manager.
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Linked – Monitoring Individual Employees Isn’t the Way to Boost Productivity
I am convinced that the best managers are the ones who help remove obstacles to doing good work. Every organization has them. It’s a question of how effectively they can be navigated. In toxic environments, it’s not possible. In healthy ones overcoming obstacles is possible, and that is where managers focus their efforts. Monitoring every action of an individual employee does nothing to help them navigate the obstacles and does nothing to support them. It’s all a top-down case of the “gotchas.”
