A Guide to Better Meetings
“Meetings are useless” Do you also hear that all the time? But stepping back, that’s like saying “screwdrivers are bad”. Meetings are a tool, and they are indispensable for effective, transparent communication.
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“Meetings are useless” Do you also hear that all the time? But stepping back, that’s like saying “screwdrivers are bad”. Meetings are a tool, and they are indispensable for effective, transparent communication.
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Study after study after study into remote work has made one thing clear: Remote workers are more productive than their office-bound counterparts. What’s not entirely clear is why.
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Companies protect a lot of things, yet many of them are guilty of one glaring omission. Too often, there’s something they leave wide open and vulnerable: their employees’ time.
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Python offers multiple great graphing libraries that come packed with lots of different features. No matter if you want to create interactive, live or highly customized plots python has an excellent library for you.
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It has been called a “gem” and “pretty much the coolest thing ever,” and if you have not heard of it, then you are missing out on one of the greatest corners of the Python 3 standard library: itertools.
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IN 1963, MARIA Goeppert Mayer won the Nobel Prize in physics for describing the layered, shell-like structures of atomic nuclei. No woman has won since. One of the many women who, in a different world, might have won the physics prize in the intervening 55 years is Sau Lan Wu.
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Considering their underlying technology, slot machines are intriguing test subjects. The software at the back end randomly generates the numbers and patterns of the winning combinations, and when you add currency processing into the mix, you have some interesting test cases. If you've ever wondered what goes into testing slot machines, read on.
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Radical Candor is a simple tool to ensure people receive the right kind of guidance. Honest but also human. This post is an intro guide to Radical Candor: what is, what is not, why it matters, how to get started, and key watch-outs.
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While not all of us may have the privilege of changing jobs, all of us do have the ability to change one thing: our mindsets. And that's often enough to shift our work orientation.
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You are annoying your boss and colleagues any time you take your phone out during meetings, says research from USC's Marshall School of Business, and if you work with women and people over forty they're even more perturbed by it than everyone else.
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