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The Most Important Thing For Your Career
The flip side of this is also true. The most generous thing you can do is teach someone something you already know.
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Linked – The ripple effects of layoffs
It’s December, and the number of organizations conducting layoffs keeps growing. It’s been a never-ending cycle of layoffs. Let’s not kid ourselves and assume that everyone is feeling OK about that. Let’s not ignore the mental health elephant in the room, let alone the damage to workplace culture. And let’s also acknowledge that leaders who have conducted any layoffs do not get the benefit of the doubt regarding trust. There’s simply no reason to trust you.
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Where is the Real Value That We Should Measure?
We measure what people watch because it’s easy. Then we make that the stand-in for the information we need to know, why they stay subscribers. Why they subscribe is a more complicated question, but it’s the question that matters if you’re selling subscriptions.
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Linked – The wrong way to define productivity
As the article mentions, this is a big reason why return-to-office mandates have destroyed the trust between management and employees. When I’m happily working remotely, finishing all of my tasks and projects on time, connecting with the people I need to collaborate with just fine, and reporting on the status of my work using the tools available, and you turn around and tell me that I need to be in the office to be more productive, I quickly see that for what it is. Despite the results, you don’t trust people to do their jobs.
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Shared Links (weekly) Nov. 26, 2023
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Navigating The Workplace: How To Manage Depression At Your Job– much of this advice assumes your workplace is interested in helping. If they aren’t, don’t be afraid to find a different one.
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Financial crises damage people’s mental health – our global review shows who is worst affected– Layoffs, poverty, medical debt, etc. are risks that aren’t solved with exercise.
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Google Chrome will limit ad blockers starting June 2024– Maybe using a browser created by the internet’s biggest ad seller isn’t the ideal way to go?
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Job Hopping: Navigating Toxic Workplaces– Job hopping isn’t as much of a negative as staying in some workplaces is.
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Debunking the Myth of Hard Work– “Luck plays a far more significant role in life outcomes than successful people like to admit.”
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The Good, The Bad And The Reality: The Impact Of AI On Cybersecurity
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6 Worrying Workplace Numbers — And What You Can Do About Them
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Workers want L&D job perks, bosses say they’re a waste of time
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EU faces privacy complaint over CSAM microtargeting ads it ran on X– You would think the EU could follow its own data privacy rules.
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Want to Improve Career Development? Start With Your Managers
