March 05, 2007 Speedlinking

• Not that many people have trouble determining this on their own, but Guy Kawasaki gives some hard fast rules for determining if Your Boss is an Asshole.
• Maybe all the reason why you should Be a mentor, starting now - Learn now how to give back the knowledge you have to your peers and keep doing it throughout your career.
• Morning Edition’s workplace consultant, Ben Dattner, talks about Workplace Woes: The Team-Building Retreat. He points out that many offsite team-building exercises actually are promoting competitive, individual wins instead of collaboration and team building (Although paint-ball does sound like fun…)
• And CNN talks with Eric Schmidt and gets more detail about Google’s 10% time and what “Don’t Be Evil” really helps to accomplish

U.S. Anti-Terrorism efforts are run by Managers

Movie Plot Threats

The current U.S. efforts to fight terrorism are an unwinnable battle. The majority of effort, money, and planning is spent trying to protect against “Movie Plot Threats.” The problem with this mindset though, is that there will always be a different easier method to attack, a different avenue, or a loophole.

For example - Liquids are banned because they are dangerous, but thrown into a big container directly next to where the line queues. Even odder is that small containers of liquids are safe as long as they are in a zip lock bag. These efforts are pure security theater, no one is one bit safer because of these solutions.

Many organizations have these same issues and there are many parallels between these policies and how groups are managed.

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