Category: Social
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Your tweets are always on: Adam Orth leaving Microsoft proves personal twitter accounts are dead
Your tweets are always on: Adam Orth leaving Microsoft proves personal twitter accounts are dead: Microsoft Studios creative director Adam Orth caused quite a bit of controversy when he defended the idea of consoles that require an always-on Internet connection to function. […] Remember that Twitter isn’t a private conversation with friends who follow you;…
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Markus Perdrizat
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How Dave Goldberg of SurveyMonkey Built a Billion-Dollar Business and Still Gets Home By 5:30 PM
How Dave Goldberg of SurveyMonkey Built a Billion-Dollar Business and Still Gets Home By 5:30 PM: Meetings. Who Needs ‘Em? Partly in reaction to his experience at Yahoo!, Goldberg only attends “two and a half” regular scheduled meetings every week. Goldberg said, “I’m probably more anti-meeting than most people in my job. It’s just in…
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Markus Perdrizat
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The Most Common Leadership Model – And Why It’s Broken
The Most Common Leadership Model – And Why It’s Broken: When organizations’ hire, develop, and promote leaders using a competency-based model, they’re unwittingly incubating failure. Nothing fractures corporate culture faster, and eviscerates talent development efforts more rapidly, than rewarding the wrong people for the wrong reasons. Don’t reward technical competency – reward aggregate contribution. Another…
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Markus Perdrizat
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Role of Positivity in Risk Management Communication
Role of Positivity in Risk Managerment Communication: What is the cause of the stormy relationship [between Risk and Business]? Criticism and negative feedback! No one likes it, so why blame the business managers. What if risk managers change the approach? With the criticism they give a lot of positive reinforcement? Will the behavior of business managers change?…
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Markus Perdrizat
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Two-Step Verification Will End Consensual Impersonation
Two-Step Verification Will End Consensual Impersonation: IT security pros are typically delighted to do away with employees’ option for consensual impersonation, and indeed, privileged identity management systems work really hard to make it impossible for those with superuser powers to do. But I suspect the consumer world isn’t quite ready for widespread two-step verification that…
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Markus Perdrizat
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What Is: Product Management
What Is: Product Management: In 140 characters or less, what is Product Management? Building. Communicating. Helping. Simplifying. Collaborating. (Sometimes) Crying. Leading. Nice little article on Product Management. And more about PM in this portrait of Twitter’s Jason Goldman – The Silent Partner: Jason Goldman helped build Google and Twitter into what they are today —…
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Markus Perdrizat
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Unique in the Crowd: The privacy bounds of human mobility
Unique in the Crowd: The privacy bounds of human mobility: We study fifteen months of human mobility data for one and a half million individuals and find that human mobility traces are highly unique. Wow – they know who I am just from my location patterns. No use signing in and out of different accounts…
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Markus Perdrizat
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Should I Work for Free?
Should I Work for Free? Who’s ready to stop working for free? Hopefully you are! If you have any doubts, consult this handy chart below. Start in the middle and work your way to your answer! Download the original English jpg here! Via Do not work for free and Should you work for free? Yes…
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Markus Perdrizat
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Cypherpunk rising: WikiLeaks, encryption, and the coming surveillance dystopia
Cypherpunk rising: WikiLeaks, encryption, and the coming surveillance dystopia: Twenty years ago, it was cypherpunk that was happening. Looking back in time: another history lesson.
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Markus Perdrizat
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I Need People to Work Overtime
Management Myth 15: I Need People to Work Overtime: When a manager wants people to work overtime, to feel invested in an organization, what’s the real issue behind the words? It might be that the manager wants people to have the same sense of investment in the organization as the manager does. In that case,…
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Markus Perdrizat
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