If You Dread Deadlines, You’re Thinking About Them All Wrong
Deadlines can be energizing and help you to sharpen your focus, set priorities, collaborate effectively with a team, and get work done, all while keeping projects on track and on schedule. Think of it this way. Deadlines are a done-for-you prioritization tool that tells you a given project is important to focus on since its deadline is earlier.
This $5 Billion Software Company Has No Sales Staf...
Atlassian sold $320 million worth of business software last year without a single sales employee. Everyone else in the industry noticed.
Steve Jobs Knew How to Run a Meeting: Here's How He Did it | Inc.com
Brilliant. Passionate. Overbearing. Impatient.
Steve Jobs's management style has been described in many ways, both positive and negative. Love him or hate him, there's no denying what he accomplished: Within a short time, he built the most successful company on the planet.
Uri Hasson: This is your brain on communication | TED Talk | TED.com
Neuroscientist Uri Hasson researches the basis of human communication, and experiments from his lab reveal that even across different languages, our brains show similar activity, or become "aligned," when we hear the same idea or story. This amazing neural mechanism allows us to transmit brain patterns, sharing memories and knowledge. "We can communicate because we have a common code that presents meaning," Hasson says.
The 3 Things That Make Technical Training Worthwhile
Managers understand that having employees who understand the latest tools and technologies is vital to keeping a company competitive. But training employees on those tools and technologies can be a costly endeavor (corporations spent $130 billion on corporate training in general in 2014) and too often training simply doesn’t achieve the objective of giving employees the skills they need.
Stop the Glorification of Busy Already | Are You Epic?
As a society, we have created two matrixes for success. Money and power. We structure our lives to compete in those two areas almost exclusively and won’t consider ourselves successful or worthy or important without obtaining both. We will break our backs in busywork, working constantly, chasing an ideal that has become obsolete and outdated. If we are not continuously busy, we are looked at as being lazy, insufficient, or lacking motivation. We literally have glorified busy, and I can’t even.
The Secret to High Performance That Deloitte Teaches Its Employees | Inc.com
It's a typical day in the office. Meetings are stacked back-to-back. Deadlines loom. You eat lunch at your desk while you work. Emails nag for your attention. There's little to no time for casual conversations with colleagues. Work can drain the energy and enthusiasm necessary for high performance.
Italian Hacking Team mogul David Vincenzetti casts a chilling world shadow | afr.com
The Blackwater of surveillance, the Hacking Team is among the world's few dozen private contractors feeding a clandestine, multibillion-dollar industry that arms the world's law enforcement and intelligence agencies with spyware. Comprised of about 40 engineers and salespeople who peddle its goods to more than 40 nations, the Hacking Team epitomises what Reporters Without Borders, the international anti-censorship group, dubs the "era of digital mercenaries".