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Linked: Addressing employee burnout: Are you solving the right problem?
ByMike McBride June 4, 2022June 4, 2022 Reading Time: 1 minute

Kudos to McKinsey for the research, but really just for the first line of this paragraph:

“As an employer, you can’t “yoga” your way out of these challenges. Employers who try to improve burnout without addressing toxic behavior are likely to fail. Our survey shows that improving all other organization factors assessed (without addressing toxic behavior) does not meaningfully improve reported levels of burnout symptoms. Yet, when toxic behavior levels are low, each additional intervention contributes to reducing negative outcomes and increasing positive ones.”

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Linked: How to Survive Constant Change at Work
ByMike McBride May 9, 2022May 6, 2022 Reading Time: 2 minutes

The interesting thing to think about is not just in regards to your own managers. This extends out to clients, partners, customers, etc. When they are allowed to constantly shift the goalposts and your response to your employees on the front lines of those relationships is “eh, you know how they are”, consider the fact that you are not keeping them safe. It’s not just an irritation, it’s creating an environment that is not psychologically safe for them. It is doing harm.

This gets old, and as the quote above says, it contributes to a loss of trust and cynicism. It might also lead to a ton of burnout too.

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Linked: E-Waste Is a Cybersecurity Problem, Too
ByMike McBride February 7, 2022February 6, 2022 Reading Time: 1 minute

Yes, all of these electronics not being disposed of properly are a risk to the environment, and it turns out that the data on them might be a risk to all of us as well.

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Linked: The Third Web
ByMike McBride December 29, 2021December 29, 2021 Reading Time: 2 minutes

Here’s the thing. I’ve been around the internet, and the Web, a long time. Long enough to remember when HTML was going to “democratize” publishing and when blogging was going to “democratize journalism” and when social media was going to be the thing that finally “democratized” the Web and gave everyone a voice.

None of that proved to be true. Each and every iteration of Internet technology eventually wound up with a couple of big winners, and some sort of monopoly.

What is it about Web3 that makes people think this will end any differently?

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Linked: Windows 10 is a security disaster waiting to happen. How will Microsoft clean up its mess?
ByMike McBride November 16, 2021November 16, 2021 Reading Time: 3 minutes

Ed Bott raises an interesting question about people using PCs that don’t meet the requirements in terms of hardware security for Windows 11 but who own otherwise perfectly fine computers. In 2025, when Microsoft stops patching Windows 10, how many computers will still be out there, in use, connected to the internet, and vulnerable.

But in the quote above, Ed raises another point that maybe we should be thinking about more. What happens to all the hardware that is no longer supported as technology advances? It ends up in a landfill. That’s not good. That’s not even acceptable.

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Linked: Wanted: Disgruntled Employees to Deploy Ransomware
ByMike McBride August 21, 2021August 17, 2023 Reading Time: 2 minutes

Look, it makes sense at any time, but right now with companies varying sets of rules around a pandemic, forcing employees back to an office, mandating a vaccine if they do, closing offices, etc. there is bound to be at least one person who just isn’t very happy with whatever stance the company has taken.

Would the vast majority of them stoop to purposefully installing ransomware on the corporate network? Probably not, but the hacker doesn’t need the majority, they need 1. Just one person to be so angry, and also unethical, and they are in.

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Linked: Addressing employee burnout: Are you solving the right problem?

Linked: How to Survive Constant Change at Work

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Linked: Windows 10 is a security disaster waiting to happen. How will Microsoft clean up its mess?

Linked: Wanted: Disgruntled Employees to Deploy Ransomware

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