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by Trish Smith It is important to understand personality types and traits when working with and managing other people (check out my article about that here). There are two traits with the strongest influence on personality style. An understanding of these provides advantages for managing and communicating – advantages that are essential for success. The [...]
by Ioana Justus If you were asked to throw a few million dollars out the window, would you do it? If yes, let me know where and when – I’ll happily wait outside with my catcher’s mitt. More likely, the quick answer to this question is a resounding “NO”. Few circumstances would lead someone to [...]
by Carl Anctil Background: A few months ago, Microsoft released (and silently installed through Windows Update) a .NET Framework Assistant add-on for the Firefox web browser. Microsoft installed this add-on to Firefox without warning the user that the add-on would be installed as part of the .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1. Security professionals, bloggers, [...]
by Aaron Titus The FTC recently announced new guidelines requiring bloggers to disclose when they get freebies in exchange for reviews. Adopted by a vote of 4-0, this is the first update of the FTC’s Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising in 29 years. The rules go into effect on December [...]
by Ron Woerner Whether you call it lay-offs, downsizing, rightsizing, redundancies, a reduction in force, or whatever, a reduction in staff stinks. Downturns in the economy often translate to a reduced volume of business, resulting in a correlated reduction in staff. One of the hardest jobs in Security is ensuring that those who are asked [...]
by Martin Fisher As we continue to discuss the Basic Truths of Incident Response Leadership, we’ve briefly gone over the three Basic Truths as well as done a deeper analysis of “Succeeding By Planning to Fail”. This brings us to: Basic Truth #2: Have A Workable Plan, or Else As an Incident Response Leader, one [...]
by James Costello A friend of mine recently had a very Dilbertesque experience at work. The company my friend works for has been acquired twice in the last three years and all of the dust seemed to be settling. Sort of… Locally there were four offices under the corporate umbrella, each a legacy of the [...]
by Ioana Justus My career has now spanned almost 12 years, and it still amazes me how so many managers and executives consistently make bad decisions and then are surprised by the results. As the economy has gone bad, you’d think that people would be a little more judicious about how they spend the small [...]
by Dennis Kuntz There was a little bit of a buzz recently regarding an article on Slate called, “Unchain the Office Computers! Why corporate IT should let us browse any way we want”. It’s basically a litany of complaints about how the IT department, “that class of interoffice Brahmans,” decides “ridiculously and capriciously, how people [...]
by Jeff Kirsch If you have been around small children for very long, you will probably hear parents utter the phrase, “Use your words.” This is usually in response to a child having a tantrum or resorting to yelling to get attention. Parents are reminding their children that the way to communicate is through using [...]
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