Recalibrate your skepticism as lazy leaders go for low hanging fruit
In their "The State of the American Manager” study, Gallup found that half (50%) of all Americans have left a job to "get away from their manager at some point in their career.”
My chairmen Ian Glachan and later Andrew Tink of The NSW Public Accouts Committee also said it before, but it begs repeating: employees leave managers, not companies. And a bad manager can make employees leave in waves.
Moving chairs on the Titanic - where cream rarely rises to the top …
A cyber security director has called for Chinese applications such as TikTok and WeChat to be banned in Australia amid growing data concerns
I just don't think we gain anything by having those companies operating apps in Australia and the risk of data flowing to the Chinese government is too great …
Call for TikTok to be banned in Australia amid China security concerns
Earlier this year, Michael Rowan pleaded guilty to two counts of knowingly giving false or misleading evidence at an examination.
The charges related to a Law Enforcement Conduct Commission (LECC) investigation, which centred around his relationships with three female officers.
In the Downing Centre Local Court on Tuesday, Rowan was questioned on giving false evidence to the LECC about losing his phone, and the extent of a meeting with one of his colleagues after he was directed to have no contact with her.
Former senior NSW police officer sentenced to prison for giving false evidence, granted bail
Mental health awareness and how to address ‘leadership loneliness’
‘Corporate Clown Coach’ Em Stroud, works with CEOs and C-suite executives using vulnerability as a tool to develop personal growth and leadership techniques including those mastered from the art of clowning
Zelenskyy wants to replace Ukraine’s top spy after security failures Politico and now Zelenskiy fires Ukraine’s spy chief and top state prosecutorGuardian
Automation on the Docks Means Fewer Jobs — and Often No Improvement in ProductivityJacobin
A Roadmap For High-Trust CommunitiesGrassroots Economic Organizing
For Argument’s Sake The Yale Review. The deck: “In praise of high school debate.”
“GLAAD’s 2022 Social Media Safety Index(SMSI) provides recommendations for the industry at large and reports on LGBTQ user safety across the five major social media platforms: Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, and TikTok. As a follow up to the pioneering 2021 SMSI, the 2022 edition of the report introduces a Platform Scorecard developed by GLAAD in partnership with Ranking Digital Rights and Goodwin Simon Strategic Research. The Platform Scorecard utilizes twelve LGBTQ-specific indicators to generate numeric ratings with regard to LGBTQ safety, privacy, and expression. After reviewing the platforms on measures like explicit protections from hate and harassment for LGBTQ users, offering gender pronoun options on profiles, and prohibiting advertising that could be harmful and/or discriminatory to LGBTQ people, all platforms scored under a 50 out of a possible 100…”
START via MarylandToday website: “In the early hours of Christmas Day 2020, an RV pulled up outside an AT&T network facility in historic Nashville. It broadcast, via speaker, recorded warnings that ranged from the literal to the confusing: gunshots, a female voice demanding evacuation, portions of Petula Clark’s song “Downtown.” Then the vehicle detonated in a massive blast that tore apart several blocks and injured three people. Though the only fatality was the bomber himself, the disturbing incident had characteristics of a terrorist attack and illustrated several trends on display in 2020 data released yesterday by the University of Maryland’s National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START). The first year of the COVID-19 pandemic did not dramatically alter the number of terrorist attacks around the world, said Dr. Erin Miller, program manager for START’s Global Terrorism Database (GTD), but individual conspiracy theory extremists were involved in an increasing number of incidents, particularly against telecom infrastructure. “This is an interesting, unique development,” she said. Worldwide in 2020 there were 8,348 terrorist attacks – defined by the GTD as “acts by non-state actors involving the threatened or actual use of illegal force of violence to attain a political, economic, religious or social goal through fear, coercion or intimidation” – resulting in 22,847 deaths, including those of assailants. Those figures represent a 1% decline and 12% increase, respectively, since 2019, mostly continuing a decline since 2014. “The global pandemic did not lead to dramatic shifts upward or downward immediately,” Miller said. In terms of perpetrators, the largest increase was in attacks committed by conspiracy theory extremists: six in 2019, versus at least 116 in 2020, in countries ranging from Australia and New Zealand to the United States, Canada, United Kingdom and Germany. Nearly all were non-lethal, and a surprising 96% were aimed at damaging telecom targets, Miller said, showing not only the influence of conspiracy theories concerning 5G and other wireless technologies – which range from causing cancer and killing animals and plants to causing the coronavirus outbreak – but also how perpetrators in the United States and western Europe are largely acting as part of loose ideological movements, not in concert with organizations. “We are seeing more situations … (where) they are not necessarily organized into a formal entity with a proper name,” she said…”
- To access the GTD, please visit this link.
- To view the recording of Miller discussing the trends from the data, please visit this link
Closing Time: The Life and Death of the American Mall The Baffler
Rowdy the Runaway Cat is Caught after Weeks on the Lam at Boston’s Airport BBC
Smart Thermostat Swarms are Straining the US Grid The Register
The Indian Women Vloggers Making Visible the Invisible Drudgery of Housework The Wire
