Most organisations have a disaster recovery plan and a business continuity… Far fewer are prepared for a crisis requiring social distancing and working from home for long periods on a massive scale. … Hence the rush to buy laptops and webcams and other equipment to kit out home offices…
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The biggest threat to your business and its data does not come from the outside. It originates from your own employees. Either through well-meaning ignorance or active malice, they have the potential to put your data at risk to an incredible degree. Here’s how you can tell you’re at risk. Like it or not, the greatest threat to your data comes from within. …
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The SBA’s paycheck protection loan program is “really more of a loan that converts to a grant.” … Small businesses with fewer than 500 employees qualify, as will some larger companies. The program is aimed at helping businesses maintain their payroll during the significant business disruption caused by the coronavirus crisis. Here’s how the loan forgiveness works:
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Offices are closing. Travel is restricted. Employers are scrambling to knock together hasty virtual setups and access to corporate networks for workers now required to work from home. … One of Zoom’s key strengths is its simplicity, but this does not mean that the platform is without a variety of advanced features that remote workers will find useful for improving their productivity. …
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One thing that I’ve learned to do is to make technology work for me, and with that in mind, here’s a list of what I believe to be essential gadgets and gear if you find yourself working from home because of the coronavirus outbreak.
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Productivity isn’t about getting more done. It’s about what you get done. Three aspects of perfectionism can interfere with your ability to prioritize the most important tasks. 1. You’re reluctant to designate decisions as “unimportant.”
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If you’re one of the countless people who unwisely use easy-to-guess passwords or reuse a password for several accounts, cybersecurity experts have a message for you: It isn’t your fault. Memorizing a unique, complex password for each account is impossible. … That’s why many cybersecurity experts suggest using a password manager.
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So, if this is something you’re looking to improve in yourself, here are 12 simple ways you can start practicing the art of self-discipline: 1. Don’t set a goal without knowing how you’re going to track its progress. …
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Whether or not coronavirus becomes a full outbreak, the trend of working from afar is currently experiencing a major boost as businesses shift to digital channels and more people avoid physical gatherings. Here are key approaches and tools to get the most from remote work. …
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It’s tempting with a long task list to spread yourself too thin. You can stay busy all day and still find you have not much progress to show for it by the end of the night. Now apply the 80/20 rule to your to-do list. …
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I had just finished giving a speech on building habits when a woman in the audience exclaimed, “You teach how to create habits, but that’s not my problem. I’m fat!” The frustration in her voice echoed throughout the room. “My problem is stopping bad habits. That’s why I’m fat. Where does that leave me?” … The first step is to realize that starting a new routine is very different from breaking an existing habit. …
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The temptation to always talk about ourselves is a new tradition like Black Friday without the cheap sales. It’s hurting our conversations and over-inflating our egos. Experiment: I tried to go two days without talking about myself in every conversation to see what would happen. Would it make a difference? Would people notice? What would it do to relationships? This is what happens when you stop talking about yourself.
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Procrastination is an issue with managing our emotions, not our time. The task we’re putting off is making us feel bad – perhaps it’s boring, too difficult or we’re worried about failing – and to make ourselves feel better in the moment, we start doing something else…
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We all deal with countless deadlines every week, even though we dread them. They are the chronological equivalent of a budget. By setting aside a portion of your time to complete a task in advance, you avoid over-spending time. Deadlines make you take action. …
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This week, a video has wafted around the web that may turn your head away or your stomach around. Or your mind toward emigration to undeveloped land. You see, this video showed the fun way kids are apparently communicating in class. With each other, that is. It appears they’re swapping a single Apple AirPod of theirs for a single Apple AirPod of their friends…
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Step one: stop talking. From that friend in need to your nightmare colleague, here’s how to hear and make a difference…
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To regain control over our attention, our time, and our life, you need to first regain your brain. In this animated video, I provide some practical advice for how we can finally take matters into our own hands to fight distractions instead of waiting for the tech companies to fix the problem for us.
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For anyone looking to advance their professional career, few moves can make as immediate an impact as adding some advanced certifications to the resume.
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As we grow and learn in our jobs and in our careers, we’re constantly faced with situations where we need to adapt our behavior. It’s simply a reality of the world we work in today. And without the skill and courage to take the leap, we can miss out on important opportunities for advancement. How can we as professionals stop building our lives around avoiding these unpleasant, but professionally beneficial, tasks?
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Jeff Bezos’s two-pizza rule, explained … If you want your team to be different—and to achieve differently—it must be small. The two-pizza rule says that no team can be larger than five to seven people. …
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Cloud software is impeding open source software companies from making a profit. Tom Merritt explains the five things you need to know about open source and the cloud….
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As Nir Eyal outlines in his new book, Indistractable, notifications are the big problem in this cycle. If my phone were across the room and I didn’t hear the ding, feel it buzz, or see a lock screen notification I wouldn’t be as compelled to check. This aligns with a 2018 article in Education and Health, which explained that unpredictable rewards work together with the push notifications to build a habitual cycle for people.
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Ever find yourself at work, desperate to finish an important project, but seemingly getting nowhere? Nir Eyal used to experience that a lot. Then he started to look at the science behind distraction and what you can do to stop it. In this episode, Nir explains how to stop getting distracted, why open plan offices don’t work and how Slack created a distraction free workplace.
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DocAuthority‘s new report states that IT security departments are incorrectly estimating the value of business information they have in their possession. This leads to poor investment into the availability, protection and security of the data that is commercially most valuable. … the poll uncovered that the majority was undervalued, including research and development, as well as financial reports. On the other hand, personally identifiable data (PII), which was less sensitive, was highly prioritised.
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As a small business owner, I found out that I was the perfect target for cybercriminals when I read certified IT professional Darren Coleman’s book, Easy Prey: How to Protect Your Business from Data Breach, Cybercrime, & Employee Fraud. It inspired me to arm myself with some common sense and the realization that I am responsible for my viral life just as I am for my real life. …
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Constantly checking your phone? Sidetracked by apps? Use these tips to change bad tech habits to good … such as: Stop notifications… Slow down the email ping-pong … Never open an email more than twice…
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Early in my career… I felt overwhelmed. … I went to a wise, older colleague and poured out my soul. He listened patiently and then said something I will never forget: “Mike, just do the next right thing.” “That’s it?” I asked. “Yep. That’s it,” he replied. “You’re overthinking it. Just do the next right thing. It will be okay.” … Here are three steps I follow to put it into practice…
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Convinced technology was becoming a problem in his own life, Nir Eyal had been reading every book on tech addiction he could find, and testing out the many techniques proposed for combatting its overuse. “None of those techniques I read about–like digital minimalism or digital detoxes or digital sabbath–worked,” he says. “All those books tell you it’s no one’s fault but it’s technology’s fault. And so I tried that stuff. And it didn’t work. … learning to become indistractable, to control your attention and choose your life, is the skill of the century, because if we think the world is distracting now, then wait a few years.
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Americans are taking less vacation time than at any point in the last four decades. Why? According to Gary Oster, Managing Director of Project: Time Off, “Many people don’t take time off because they think that it will negatively impact their manager’s perception of them. But, that isn’t the case at all.” If you or someone you know needs to be convinced to use your vacation time, here’s a list of reasons why it just makes good business sense: …
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Today’s data breaches often seem to be caused not just by malware infections or external threat actors, but human error, insiders with an ax to grind, and simple security failures. Some companies will bury their head in the sand, attempting to ignore responsible, private disclosures of data leaks, while others will act rapidly when their information — and reputation — is at stake.
According to new research released Tuesday and conducted by cybersecurity firm McAfee, titled, “Cloud-Native: The Infrastructure-as-a-Service Adoption and Risk,” the majority of IaaS misconfigurations are going unnoticed. …
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