While the Covid-19 pandemic hits and reshapes companies, industries, national economies, and our society in previously unthinkable ways, business leaders need to think beyond survival to the opportunities this crisis might create, not only for their own organizations...
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Otter launches live transcription for Zoom meetings
Transcribing audio is a massive pain. Thankfully, Otter just made it a lot easier for people stuck at home on endless Zoom meetings. The otter.ai app, available for free or with a paid plan, is by far the single best, easiest tool ever to instantly transcribe to text...
The U.S. Is Not Headed Toward a New Great Depression
There is no doubt that the coronavirus is driving a macroeconomic meltdown around the world. In the U.S. and elsewhere, heavy job losses will likely drive unemployment figures to levels not seen since the Great Depression. Fiscal efforts to contain the crisis are...
Coursera to give unemployed workers free access to 3,800 online courses
Online learning platform Coursera will make 3,800 of its courses available for free to people unemployed due to the coronavirus pandemic. The goal of the initiative is to help workers develop skills to become re-employed, according to a Coursera blog post. You can’t...
How to use iPad app multitasking to get more done
These new gestures make using the iPad even more convenient and useful than ever. This is a short 5 minute video – and if you have an iPad – it’s worth watching twice! Many of these tricks were new to me – and a couple of them are super useful Having your...
How the Coronavirus Crisis Is Redefining Jobs
Three insights from HBR on how works needs to change Make work portable across the organization. Accelerate automation Share employees in cross-industry talent exchanges We’ve been doing a lot to help clients with the first two – the last one is a new idea – but with...
How To Teach Online During the Current Crisis
David Siteman Garland is an incredible internet entrepreneur known for his podcasts, interviews and online courses In his post he shares some awesome tips about how to teach and best share your knowledge with your community Here’s a summary with the full guide below...
Office 365 Is Now Microsoft 365 What It Means for You and Your Family
As of April Office 365 will be known as Microsoft 365 Office 365 was available in two plans for home users: Office 365 Personal and Office 365 Home Now Office 365 Personal has become Microsoft 365 Personal, for one user, and costs $6.99/month Office 365 Home was...
Nine Key Sales Pipeline Metrics for Healthy Sales
Every salesperson wants a healthy pipeline, but many don’t have a reliable way to quantify it well - here's the plan By using hard numbers at every stage of the pipeline, salespeople are able to see not only where the bottlenecks are but also what’s causing them...
Task Inflation in Email – The Unexpected Side Effects of Enforced Telework
From Cal Newport – who has spent years studying how knowledge work (deep work) operates We tend treat the assignment of work tasks with great informality, perhaps in passing conversation or a quick email Most managers cannot quantify the load on their team members...
Small-Business Owners Face Recovery Challenges
As the global health crisis continues its spread across the U.S., millions are newly unemployed, businesses are shuttering for the foreseeable future and uncertainty is high Hit particularly hard by this crisis are small-business owners, many of whom are far short of...
What Will Work-Life Balance Look Like After the Pandemic
The Covid-19 crisis has shoved work and home lives under the same roof for many families The implicit model of an “ideal worker” – one who is wholly devoted to their job and is available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, every year of their career – is unrealistic...