The last step before leaving one job for another is deleting your files. Employees need to be very wary not to accidentally or intentionally delete or copy any of an employer’s proprietary material. If you want to use a deliverable from a project in your work portfolio, ask your employer for a copy for that purpose and ask for written permission that you can use the copy for certain purposes.

Ensure you know what to delete

<ol><li>Delete files like personal photos and sensitive tax documents.</li><li>Your browser history</li><li>Any personal apps, software or extensions you downloaded, for example, a bank app. Consider whether you need to update the email address to subscribe to any services or newsletters.</li><li>Personal messaging apps and cookies like Apple Messages or Google Hangouts.</li><li>You likely saved a password if you’ve ever used your work computer for anything personal. Be sure to wipe those off before you leave.</li></ol>

Things you should ideally wipe from your work computer

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Career

If You're About To Quit Your Job, Delete These 5 Things From Your Computer

Several years ago, Sarah Williams Goldhagen, an architecture critic, became interested in new research on how our brains register the environments around us. Dipping into writing from several fields—psychology, anthropology, linguistics, and neuroscience—she learned that a new paradigm for how we live and think in the world was starting to emerge, called <a href="https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/a-brief-guide-to-embodied-cognition-why-you-are-not-your-brain/">“embodied cognition.”</a>

The Walls Around Us

Much of what and how people think is a function of our living in the kinds of bodies we do. Not just conscious thoughts, but non-conscious impressions, feedback from our senses, physical movement, and even split-second mental simulations of that movement shape how we respond to a place. And in turn, the place nudges us to think or behave in certain ways.

Where You Are Matters

Architects intuited some of these principles long ago. The monumental Baths of Caracalla in Rome, a person can bathe under an eight-foot ceiling, but there’s something about a 150-foot ceiling that makes a man a different kind of man.However, this new science of architecture and the built environment is destined to have a profound effect on the teaching and practice of design over the next generation..

Bathing Under A 150 Foot Ceiling

We’ve had in the last 20 years a kind of ocean of new information about how the brain actually works. Most of that was confirming the precepts of embodied cognition, and also going beyond it in certain ways, showing how multisensory our apprehension of the environment is.What we now know about human cognition and perception, the built environments we inhabit are drastically more important than we ever thought they were.

People Live in Bodies, Bodies Live in Spaces

Cities undervalue the importance of the design of the built environment altogether. There is this sort of professional split between high architecture and building, which research shows is just fallacious. It’s all architecture and it’s all important, because it’s all having an impact on people all the time.Very often in cities, the overall form of buildings is given much more priority than materials, surfaces, textures, and details. What we know about the way we appropriate and experience places is that the overall form of a place is not what most dramatically affects our experience of it.

The City Life

Architects tend, particularly with parametric design, to emphasize overall aggregate form, and all that other stuff gets filled in later. And then, very often, it’s value-engineered out. That’s what’s creating a lot of the impoverishment in the environment. To have “sticky” places—places that engage you, your sensory system, your motor system, [and] help you create a sense of identification with [them]—you have to have all those things, and most buildings don’t.

Designs Without Soul

When I was really young kid, nature was nature. It was forests, trees, lakes, rivers. Then people begin to use the word “environment.” It was a political and social construct, and emphasized the interrelatedness of all these different components within nature. That was a response to pesticides, air pollution, and so on. Now, kids get education in the environment from the time they’re in first grade. They start learning about climate change, visit waste treatment plants. That’s the kind of paradigm shift that needs to happen about the built environment.

We Understood Environmental Concerns Too Late

One, architectural education. Two, real-estate development. Three, building codes, zoning codes, all these things need to be reviewed according to these kinds of standards. Four, architects need to not be so skittish in thinking about human experience and learn more about it. It’s a much larger problem than just, “Architects should do better.” It’s not a professional disciplinary problem, it’s a larger social problem. We also need more research.

Saving Ourselves With Better Architecture: What Needs To Be Done

The buildings around us affect our body, mind and emotions.

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Product & Design

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Society, Arts & Culture

This Is Your Brain on Architecture

The traditional organization chart is as outdated as the dial-up modem. Or maybe a fax machine.  It's too rigid, reinforces hierarchy, and doesn't support the complexities of today's work environment. Sadly, 99.9% of companies still use it today. But here's some good news: they no longer need to.

The Traditional Organization Chart

The organization chart depicted above originates from IBM and was drawn up in 1917. That's exactly a century ago! While major things have changed in the world since then, this antiquated organization chart is identical to most of the organizations we work in today. It symbolizes the outdated command-and-control model that was designed more than a century ago. It was designed for a world that no longer exists; a stable, slow-moving, predictable world.﻿Companies that still use the traditional organization chart do so mostly because they believe there's no better alternative.

Living In The Past

Organizations these days—especially more progressive ones—are in dire need of a different solution. A solution that more accurately describes the vastly complex network of roles and responsibilities. A solution that allows one to visualize the dynamic, ever-changing nature of a group of people working together.

Reinventing the Org Chart

Holacracy is an agile framework to organize work. A way of working. And it is a complete system to organize work. The system contains all the rules and processes that ensure fair decision-making. In Holacracy the purpose - the goal of the organization - is the boss and not the CEO or a manager.

Holacracy 

As we take on more and more activities as a team, it's super helpful to create transparency around who's responsible for what, how everyone's progressing, and what we can improve. Plus, it allows everyone to easily pick up (and ditch) roles. This helps all of us to continuously explore which combination of roles best fits our talents and skills.

Supporting Self Management

Holacracy is a management practice that’s designed for how we work today. It transforms outdated command hierarchies into agile, self-organizing networks. Benefits of the new decentralized work system :<ul><li>Clarity of roles & responsibilities.</li><li>Tracking of strategic goals.</li><li>Giving and receiving feedback.</li></ul>

The Way Things Work In A Holacracy framework

Holacracy is designed for humans. Every industry today involves complex knowledge work. Even modern factory workers need to contribute in ways that prior generations couldn’t imagine. You’re not part of a machine. Your work challenges change frequently and require creative, uniquely human problem-solving. Holacracy is a management practice for the modern era. It embraces our individual humanity, autonomy, and creative problem-solving capacities.

A New Way To Manage

A new world order in the office ecosystem.

The traditional organization chart is as outdated as the dial-up modem. Or maybe a fax machine. You know it, I know it, everybody knows it. It's too rigid, reinforces hierarchy, and doesn't support the complexities of today's work environment. Sadly, 99.9% of companies still use it today. But here's

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Corporate Culture

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Business

Blow Up The Traditional Organization Chart

When taking an online class, especially in a subject seemingly unrelated to your profession, it’s tempting to be overly modest.
But pursuing a multi-week course requires long-term commitment, a strong work ethic, and time management skills, especially when you’re balancing it against other responsibilities. Emphasizing all that helps you stand out as a strong, dependable candidate.

Don’t downplay the significance of completing a class

There’s such a thing as being overcommitted to your education. This may sound like obvious advice, but in the course of ordinary conversation, it’s easy to slip up and confess something you shouldn’t. Therefore, keep your professional surroundings in mind and don’t let your guard down too much.

Don’t admit to tilting the balance on work/life to complete training

When an adult decides to upskill, it’s often with their fantasy career in mind. Maybe they’re imagining transitioning from accounting to web design, or from lawyering to calligraphy.
Authenticity is a good thing, but don’t be so authentic as to spill the beans to your supervisor or hiring manager—they won’t look upon you favorably if your end game includes ditching their industry to pursue your dreams.

Don’t share your plans of an exit

Not everyone is going to take the time to review your self-evaluation or résumé in acute detail: managers are spending countless hours recruiting new employees and bending over backward to keep the ones they have. To make your achievements known, it’s important for you to personally raise the subject instead of waiting for the person you’re talking to bring it up.

Bring up your training

Maybe you finished your class just before that big job interview or performance review, or maybe it’s been a couple of months. Either way, it wouldn’t hurt to give yourself a refresher on what you actually did during the class so you can drop some impressive details in real-time.
The last thing you want to do is find yourself searching your own memory during a critical conversation with a hiring manager or supervisor.

Review your new skills before holding a discussion with managers

Sometimes, making the direct connection between your work and the class you chose is easy—no one’s going to be surprised, for instance, when a financial analyst decides to brush up on her Excel skills. They might be more skeptical, however, if that same analyst says she’s pursuing training in a creative field, like songwriting or food photography. Blow skeptics away with this fact: Creative activity that’s unrelated to work can actually help workers perform better at their jobs,

Explain how the class relates to job performance

How upskilling helps businesses adapt to a rapidly changing labour market

Discover the world of business and economics.

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Economics

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Leadership & Management

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Personal Development

Upskilling: Preparing For The Future

So you’ve completed an online course or training. Here’s how to use it as a selling point for that new job or promotion.

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Learning & Education

How to talk about upskilling at a performance review or job interview

Weavora started as a small Outsourcing company in 2010. we needed to report and invoice our clients based on actual hours spent. In September 2015 we signed our first paid client. Today we have crossed the $1.3M Arr mark (growing X2.2 times per year) and used by 2,200+ companies from 70 countries.

Growing Our SaaS Company To $1M+ ARR: 7 People, 3 Years, No VC Money. Key Lessons Learned

Product should have a clear advantage, not so easy to copy for a competitor. Many users still preferred us because we did one important feature Very-Very well. We gradually react to requests from customers, add new Functionality.

1. Competitive advantage from day one

Synthetic testing can sometimes fail to detect a serious problem. If you use your product daily you will be sure everything works.

2. You must use your product

Outsourcing is much easier and faster to organize than a profitable product. The fear of borrowing and the need to meet high expectations is a big factor. We did several "Pivots" because misunderstood market demand. We could find ourselves in a situation when we add feature by feature until realize that we neither have a good product nor the money. We have to equally devote time to current projects, communication with existing customers and the product.

3. Venture capital isn’t a panacea

Free users more often contact support (due to their larger number), they react more sharply to your failures, they ask absolutely different features rather than those who are paying, etc.And the conversion from free to paid is very low. Expect about 0.5–1%.

4. Freemium can put you on the wrong track

Annual Subscriptions will significantly increase your cash flow, approximately +10–15% to your Mrr. It reduces the number of monthly failures and delinquent Churn. If users on average use your product for less than a year, the annual subscription will increase your LTV.

5. The advantages of annual billing

Lead conversion from a partner directory is about 30%. We tried Google Adwords several times, spent several thousand dollars, and received 0 paid customers. Another great channel for us is organic. This is great, but a long-term investment in content and Seo.&nbsp;

6. Find your promotion channel

Product: Everhour
First paid client: Sep 2015
Team size right now: 7
HQ: Minsk, Belarus
Investments: Bootstrapping $1 million by itself isn’t a big thing. But it’s a certain bar and any founder on…

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Marketing & Sales

There are more effective ways to reach the right decision makers than growing LinkedIn followers and social media posts. Influencer marketing continues to thrive. Most people think of social media influencers as teenagers on TikTok or beauty experts on Instagram. However, a growing segment focuses on C-suit leadership providing B2B initiatives through their social media outlets.

Influencer marketing

Consumers increasingly rely on ratings and personal reviews. As a result, a negative review on Google or Yelp can pose severe consequences for a B2C business. This is true for a B2B too. People are often influenced by their peers' opinions and less by elaborate marketing campaigns. Reaching out to senior leaders can help authenticate you as a major voice in your industry.

Benefits of B2B influencer marketing

In B2B influencer marketing from the senior leadership level, interesting information on social media platforms can provide a unique experience. Your viewpoint can be promoted on topics you have expertise in and help you reach a targeted and engaged audience.

How B2B influencer marketing works

Up to now, you may have focused on blogs on LinkedIn or Medium or use a monthly newsletter. But a successful B2B influencer needs more thought and an organised plan. How to design and implement a comprehensive social media campaign:<ul><li>Define your goals. If you are a great writer, then use it to plan your thought leadership activities.</li><li>Meet your audience. Find which social media platforms draw your potential customers.</li><li>Share your thoughts and expertise. Focus on sharing valuable, actionable insights.</li><li>Engage with your audience.</li><li>Keep an eye on the metrics, then tailor your future content.</li></ul>

Building your industry leadership position

Being a successful B2B influencer takes some initial thought, followed by an organized plan.

Understand yourself and those around you.

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Psychology

Council Post: How Senior Leadership Can Make Effective B2B Influencers

Most founders start out owning their company.But to grow as quickly as possible, you’ll need investment, and to secure the capital you’ll need, your investors will want to own a part of your company.The faster you grow, the greater your burn rate becomes, and the more capital you’ll need. You move from pre-Seed to Seed to Series A, but with every cash injection, you’re forced to give up another slice of your company. Offer too little, and the investment dries up — offer too much, and you’ll soon find yourself without a share in your own company.

THE PROBLEM OF DILUTION

This apparent horror story leads many founders to take staunch anti-dilution measures. But dilution serves a purpose: to attract skilled people and resources to your startup.Whether it’s incentivizing a respected VC with a sizeable ownership stake, or luring top talent with an options pool, offering equity is beneficial to your startup, and attempting to hold on to as much equity as possible could limit your growth. Taken to extreme, anti-dilution practices could leave you as the majority shareholder of a worthless company.

ANTI-DILUTION PRACTICES

Let’s assume both you and your investor have valued your early-stage startup at $100,000. Your investor is willing to contribute $25,000 to fund the growth of your company. How much equity should they get?<ul><li>If that $100,000 is a pre-money valuation, the company is valued at $100,000 before the investment. That means that the angel’s investment actually serves to increase the value of the company to $125,000, reducing their share to 20% and increasing yours to 80%.</li><li>In both instances you’ve gained the capital you need to grow, as well as the expertise of a seasoned angel.&nbsp;</li></ul>

PRE-MONEY AND POST-MONEY VALUATION

The only real valuation of a company is whatever someone is willing to pay for it, and a VC will pay huge amounts if they think you’ll be worth a whole lot more in the future.

EQUITY AND VALUATION

Investment decisions can become incredibly complicated, and in the case of successful startups, minute changes to ownership stakes can equate to millions of dollars. Thankfully, there’s a simple rule of thumb we can use to work out whether or not we think an investment opportunity is worthwhile.An investment deal is worthwhile if you believe the deal will increase the value of your shares in the long-term by more than it reduced it in the short-term.

THE EQUITY EQUATION

This is part five of my big ol’ nine-part series, exploring every imaginable aspect of startup funding. From funding rounds to valuation methodologies, get ready for a complete crash-course in…

If You're About To Quit Your Job, Delete These 5 Things From Your Computer

This Is Your Brain on Architecture

Blow Up The Traditional Organization Chart

How to talk about upskilling at a performance review or job interview

Growing Our SaaS Company To $1M+ ARR: 7 People, 3 Years, No VC Money. Key Lessons Learned

Melissa Cervantes