Heute mit @talentim einen #Podcast aufgenommen. Zwei seniorige Herren plaudern über die Welt. Podcast erscheint demnächst @Queb_eV

🇦🇪 Dubai: - Top 20 globally for ease of doing business - Bridge between East and West markets - Free Zone company setup in 3-5 days - 9% corporate tax, 0% in Free Zones under certain conditions - 100% foreign ownership allowed Both offer world-class infrastructure and support.

My friend had 25,000 emails in Gmail. He created a filter to delete everything with the word "unsubscribe" in it. He’s now at 100.

Khalfan Almatrooshi, Deputy Head of Mission, delivered a closing statement at the inauguration of the new @ifzauae office in Frankfurt, which aims to enhance bilateral business relations between the #UAE & #Germany, and support the growing number of German companies in #Dubai. 🇦🇪🤝🇩🇪

97 year old comic about what would happen if "pocket telephones" were to be invented.

I distilled my 4 years of marketing lessons into minimalistic visuals. 1. Sell Benefits. Not features.

#officedog #bringyourdogtowork

Nobody can beat you if you are good at public speaking and Microsoft Excel.

Scrum is a cancer. I've been writing software for 25 years, and nothing renders a software team useless like Scrum does. Some anecdotes: 1. They tried to convince me that Poker is a planning tool, not a game. 2. If you want to be more efficient, you must add process, not remove it. They had us attending the "ceremonies," a fancy name for a buttload of meetings: stand-ups, groomings, planning, retrospectives, and Scrum of Scrums. We spent more time talking than doing. 3. We prohibited laptops in meetings. We had to stand. We passed a ball around to keep everyone paying attention. 4. We spent more time estimating story points than writing software. Story points measure complexity, not time, but we had to decide how many story points fit in a sprint. 5. I had to use t-shirt sizes to estimate software. 6. We measured how much it cost to deliver one story point and then wrote contracts where clients paid for a package of "500 story points." 7. Management lost it when they found that 500 story points in one project weren't the same as 500 story points on another project. We had many meetings to fix this. 8. Imagine having a manager, a scrum master, a product owner, and a tech lead. You had to answer to all of them and none simultaneously. 9. We paid people who told us whether we were "burning down points" fast enough. Weren't story points about complexity instead of time? Never mind. I believe in Agile, but this ain't agile. We brought professional Scrum trainers. We paid people from our team to get certified. We tried Scrum this way and that other way. We spent years doing it. The result was always the same: It didn't work. Scrum is a cancer that will eat your development team. Scrum is not for developers; it's another tool for managers to feel they are in control. But the best about Scrum are those who look you in the eye and tell you: "If it doesn't work for you, you are doing it wrong. Scrum is anything that works for your team." Sure it is.

Remote working is not for early entry talent 1️⃣ Home not provisioned for WFH 2️⃣ No control over work environment 3️⃣ No social capital 4️⃣ Weak professional network 5️⃣ Knowledge gap and need for learn by osmosis Remote is optimised for mid career, individual contributors

Dave Carroll was a singer-songwriter and a member of the band Sons of Maxwell. In 2008, he flew with United Airlines from Halifax to Omaha, with a layover in Chicago. He checked in his Taylor guitar, which he valued at $3,500, as part of his luggage. Upon arriving in Omaha, he discovered that his guitar was broken, apparently due to mishandling by the baggage handlers. He contacted United Airlines to file a claim, but faced indifference and bureaucracy. They informed him that he had missed the 24-hour window to report the damage and was not eligible for compensation. In his attempts to escalate his complaint to various managers and executives, he received no satisfactory response or resolution. Frustrated, he decided to take matters into his own hands and wrote a song called “United Breaks Guitars”, recording it with his band and posting it on YouTube. The song quickly went viral and had a significant impact on United Airlines' reputation and customer satisfaction. Within four weeks of the video's release, United Airlines' stock price fell 10%, costing stockholders about $180 million in value.

"Eine gut ausgebildete Masse hat beschlossen, dass Selbstdarstellung ihrer Arbeit wichtiger ist als die eigentliche Leistung." @fraaanie trifft bei #LinkedIn ins (kleine) Schwarze. Äusserst lesenswert. welt.de/debatte/kommentare/a…

Tim A. Ackermann, Ex-Director of Global Talent Acquisition and Rewards at @odanorge, shares his extensive experience in the current state of the #talentacquisition industry, and more. #recruitment Listen & Read: buff.ly/3Lw5tfZ Watch: bit.ly/allinrecruitment-ep39…

The workforce shrunk by ~2.4 million in the past few years post-Covid - and no one is quite sure why. andrewyang.com/blog/the-futu…

Das Handwerk hat Zukunft. Wer jetzt als junger Mensch einen mittelständischen Handwerksbetrieb hochzieht, kann wohlhabend werden. Schwerer wird es für Büroarbeiter. Die zu Ende gedachte Konsequenz von ChatGPT ist: Der Handwerkerlohn wächst schneller als der Wissensarbeiterlohn.