Swiss Re's List of Emerging Risks Range from Blockchain Tech to Human Cyborgs
A fragmented Internet, continued experimentation with monetary policy and another round of economic crises in emerging markets top Swiss Re’s latest roundup of emerging risks to watch out for.
Beyond those top three, the reinsurance giant covers everything from human-induced earthquakes to the ever-increasing prevalence of neutraceuticals, and blockchain technology in its latest SONAR report.
What to Do When Your To-Do List Is Holding Up Your Team
I'm a bottleneck, yip I admit it, so was interested in this article:
Bottlenecking puts your career and reputation at risk and takes a significant emotional toll. Here are four root causes of it — and solutions for each:
The sales secrets of high-growth companies | McKinsey
What distinguishes sales organizations at fast-growing companies from their lagging peers? In a wide-ranging survey of more than 1,000 companies, we unearthed five meaningful differences:
Slideshare: 69 Questions Managers Should Ask Employees
What is the most powerful management tool at your disposal?
It’s not necessarily a software application or something that you picked up in an MBA program. This tool is far more basic… the question.
Are you an Emotionally Intelligent Leader? | Tim Richardson
We are following up on a bespoke leadership development programme which we ran for one of our banking clients last year. I was asked by the CEO for a simple and practical checklist for someone to evaluate whether they were being Emotionally Intelligent as a leader.
Ahead of the curve: The future of performance management
The worst-kept secret in companies has long been the fact that the yearly ritual of evaluating (and sometimes rating and ranking) the performance of employees epitomizes the absurdities of corporate life.
Ethereum is the Forefront of Digital Currency — Medium
We have sat here for the last 3 years seeing only infrastructure apps like wallets and exchanges emerge on top of Bitcoin. Why is that?
My theory has been that the scripting language in Bitcoin — the piece of every Bitcoin transaction that lets you run a little software program along with it — is too restrictive. Enter Ethereum. Ethereum has taken what was a four function calculator of a programming language in Bitcoin and turned it into a full fledged computer. We now stand only 9 months out from the beginning of the Ethereum network and the level of app development is already faster than Bitcoin’s. We are finally getting rapid iteration at the app layer. In one early example, people have designed a decentralized organization (The DAO) — a company whose heart is code and peripheral operations are run by humans, rather than the other way around — that has raised $150m so far in the largest crowdfunding ever.
The $3 billion IT security problem - Security - iTnews
Criminals are increasingly moving away from malware in favour of compromising business email to scam organisations out of money, security researchers are warning.
Read more: http://www.itnews.com.au/news/the-3-billion-it-security-problem-420126#ixzz4A19uUI8e