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A discussion with author Alberto Silveira about his new book on managing distributed teams.

There is a big difference between remote work teams and distributed work teams, and this is as much to do with workplace innovation as with how the team members are managed, and with how they interact from their separate locations. Author Alberto Silveira chats with Steve about his book and his career to date, building successful companies by employing people who work somewhere other than the office.

Night owls have always had it tougher in a workday designed by and made for “morning people.” So why are some people aligned to a later body clock and what does the new normal hold for them? It’s good news.

Night owls have always had it tougher in a workday designed by and made for “morning people.” So why are some people aligned to a later body clock and what does the new normal hold for them? It’s good news.

Dan Price is CEO of Gravity Payments and his attitude towards how work should be done is a great proof of concept that could lead to a mutually beneficial reversal in hiring and onboarding processes.

The multi hour classroom session never really worked. It was too much information delivered in the wrong way, to a range of people with vastly different learning styles. The better, more effective way is upon us, and it’s called microlearning. 

One of the chief pushbacks to virtual presence technology and the work-from-home lifestyle has been that people will miss out on networking and career enhancement opportunities. Steve assesses whether this is true or not.

Trust is a fragile thing, but must only be shared between people who know each other well. Unfortunately, we trust too many other things, especially when this comes to technology, and it has to change. We need to embrace a trustless society. In this episode, Steve shares his easy-to-learn and easy-to-teach technique for avoiding getting tricked by SMS and spam messages, avoiding robocalls, understanding social engineering, and the blockchain. All in 15 minutes.

The Unbearable Lightness of Being Virtual: How to Enjoy a Full-Time Virtual Workspace.

There will soon be a time when we question why we ever packed ourselves into cars, trains and subways twice a day, just to do what we can do from home. The Virtual Workplace is not about endless Zoom meetings. It’s about establishing a presence where work and socializing can occur. And it’s here now.

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The Persistence of Memory: What the Pandemic Taught Us About How We Remember

When you visit a place that you haven’t been to for a year or more, the first is you say to yourself, “is it really a year since I was last here?” This phenomenon reveals something about memory that should change the way we work and learn.

For centuries, people in crowds have acted irrationally, passionately and violently, even if they didn't start out that way as individuals. This episode looks at the contagion of crowd madness and where it comes from.