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July 22, 2016
3 Essential Steps To Take At Work Before Leaving For Vacation
Before you set that out-of-office message and hit the beach, make sure you cross these things off your checklist.
Your boss granted your time-off request, and now you're counting down the days until that much-needed getaway. You might already be on vacation in your mind, but there are a few bases that absolutely must be covered at work before your body actually leaves the building.
Four Reasons You Can't Find A Good Mentor
You might not be finding a good mentor because you're looking for the wrong things in the wrong places.
I can't tell you how many times in the course of my consulting work—no, I take that back—in the course of my entire and not-short career as a designer, design firm executive, and consultant to creative professionals, that I've had someone convey to me their desire for a mentor.
How The Cybersecurity Industry Is Coping With A Skills Shortage
We live in a world of malware and malicious hackers. So why aren't there more experts trained to fight these threats?
Security breaches and digital attacks are a regular part of the news cycle these days. An even scarier reality is that, according to experts, there aren't enough people trained to fend off these cyber raids.
From Career Optimism To Unpaid Internships: This Week's Top Leadership Stories
This week's top stories may help you prepare for the next decade's workforce, rethink your standing desk, and harness your career envy.
This week we learned what we still don't know about standing desks and productivity, which fields have the most optimistic workers, and why unpaid internships' legality is still an open question.
How Video Selfies Help Keep My Company Connected
Hootsuite CEO Ryan Holmes tried everything from all-hands meetings to suggestion boxes before turning to iPhone video.
Townhall meetings. Ask-me-anything sessions. The old-fashioned suggestion box. CEOs have lots of options for keeping in touch with their ever-growing ranks of employees. The trouble is that most of them aren't that great.
July 21, 2016
Halsey Minor's Reality Lab Networks Unveils Streaming VR System, Live Planet
Reality Lab Networks wants to get people watching sports, concerts, and the Kardashians in 360 degrees.
Web publishing pioneer and serial entrepreneur Halsey Minor announced his move into the virtual reality field last year, and today he's formally unveiled his company, Reality Lab Networks, and first product: A live streaming VR camera and video distribution service called Live Planet.
Etsy's New Headquarters Will Fill You With Envy
The e-marketplace has a splashy new home that aims to open people's eyes to more inventive—and environmentally friendly—design.
Etsy started out in 2005 as a small online marketplace for makers and DIYers, but the company has turned into an e-commerce behemoth that's enabled housewives to knit their way to millions. Along the way, the $3.5 billion company has aggressively tried to do business the right way by hiring a diverse workforce, building community, and offering generous employee perks that go beyond a free lunch.
Autodesk Live Aims To Change Building Design With Video Game-Like Walk-Throughs
One button press turns a building model into a virtual world.
While trying to design a set of high-end homes, Frank Wolbertus and his colleagues at TBI-KennisLab had an idea.
Inside The Fastest-Growing Accelerator for Women And Minorities
Women and minorities don't participate in accelerators at the same rates as white men. A new virtual program aims to change that.
Most accelerators require entrepreneurs to spend three to six months in residence, which can be difficult for women entrepreneurs, particularly if they have families. So, in 2015, serial entrepreneur and former investment banker Carolyn Rodz founded Circular Board, a virtual 90-day accelerator for women entrepreneurs.
What Happened When I Gave Up My Smartphone For A Week
Shockingly, I survived.
It took me 10 minutes to write this first sentence. Why? Because as I sat down to write this story and while I tried to think of how to open it I checked my iPhone eight times. Some of those times were for simple procrastinations such as checking the news, some were for app notifications, and one was actually for a phone call (one of the less common utilities people use their smartphones for).
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