Assessment: How Productive Are You?
^ADJ: I thought I was better than average at being productive and having high levels of personal productivity, until I did this quiz (highly recommend):
Productivity has many aspects. When thinking about your productivity, you need to first understand your priorities, and then you can plan your schedule to focus on your top priorities and downplay your routine functions. On a daily basis, you need to reduce the amount of time you spend on getting through the small stuff that clutters up your life, and hone your skills at more effectively dealing with your colleagues. Both will go a long way toward helping you achieve your goals.
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... in the onslaught of pressing demands, it’s easy to hope that employee motivation is taken care of by the company’s success alone.
Jack Chou is here with a PSA: Don’t do that.
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The Scholar's Stage: What Cyber-War Will Look Like...
When prompted to think about the way hackers will shape the future of great power war, we are wont to imagine grand catastrophes: F-35s grounded by onboard computer failures, Aegis BMD systems failing to launch seconds before Chinese missiles arrive, looks of shock at Space Command as American surveillance satellites start careening towards the Earth--stuff like that. This is the sort of thing that fills the opening chapters of Peter Singer and August Cole's Ghost Fleet. [1] The catastrophes I always imagine, however, are a bit different than this. The hacking campaigns I envision would be low-key, localized, and fairly low-tech. A cyber-ops campaign does not need to disable key weapon system ...