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Open offices
It need hardly be said that these fads were and are (at best) a waste of time and (at worst) a set of expensive distractions. But open plan offices are worse. Much worse. Why? Because they decrease rather than increase employee collaboration. Source: It’s Official: Open-Plan Offices Are Now the Dumbest Management Fad of All Time |…
Yelling in the classroom
This article first appeared in the Eduk8me newsletter. Be sure to subscribe to be the first to get articles such as this. I stumbled on a YouTube video about calming down a classroom, which reminded me about this article, Why You Should Stop Yelling at Your Kids. When I started teaching I had a problem…
Avoiding the bystander effect
This article first appeared in the Eduk8me newsletter. Be sure to subscribe to be the first to get articles such as this. The bystander effect occurs when there is a group of people witnessing an emergency situation, and each person believes someone else will intervene. The chance of someone intervening goes down the more people…
How manager empathy affects work resilience
In ensuring workers are not only functioning but resilient, empathy matters more than ever, the executives agreed. With real-time glimpses into colleagues’ home lives, “we actually have more opportunity to have empathy now than we did before,” Felch said. Hummel cited above-and-beyond transparency by company leadership as a template other company leaders should consider in…
It’s the thing that gets you to the thing.
This article first appeared in the Eduk8me newsletter. Be sure to subscribe to be the first to get articles such as this. There is a 40 episode show from AMC called Halt and Catch Fire. It’s a fictionalized few of the early computer revolution in the 80s up to the search engine wars and the…
ⓔ Ugh, it’s April 1st (but yay for Apple and Gmail)
Today is a day I despise on the Internet. Filled with wannabe Onion writers, millions of sites think they are funny when in reality it’s just annoying. But, all is not lost. There have been great contributions on April Fools Day, and the optimist in me believe there will be in the future. Apple Computer…