Better Career Newsletter #7 - Working from Home
Working from Home: Managing Ourselves and Leading Our Teams | Tips from Mars | The World After Coronavirus | Verses of Hope
Hello,
This is your weekly dose of ideas and inspiration: on working from home (with a few tips from Mars), on imagining the world after coronavirus and on keeping hope through all this madness.
New Article: Working From Home - Managing Ourselves
For many of us, working from home happened suddenly, with no time to prepare or adjust. Whether we like it or not, whether we are office creatures or secretly longed to escape the cubicle, working from home suddenly became the only option. Now we need to figure out how to manage ourselves in this new setting. Read more
New Article: Working From Home - Leading Our Teams
The COVID-19 pandemic has made obsolete the question IF office jobs should go remote. The real question now is to HOW to work remotely BETTER. Going remote is not a technology problem. Going remote means overcoming a lot of organisational and psychological barriers. It also means leading our teams differently. Read more
Working From Home: Tips from Mars
Kate Greene spent four months pretending to live on Mars for a NASA mission. She shares a few tips on staying sane and passing time - Slate.com
The World After Coronavirus
‘Humankind is now facing a global crisis. Perhaps the biggest crisis of our generation. The decisions people and governments take in the next few weeks will probably shape the world for years to come. They will shape not just our healthcare systems but also our economy, politics and culture. We must act quickly and decisively. We should also take into account the long-term consequences of our actions. When choosing between alternatives, we should ask ourselves not only how to overcome the immediate threat, but also what kind of world we will inhabit once the storm passes. Yes, the storm will pass, humankind will survive, most of us will still be alive — but we will inhabit a different world. In this time of crisis, we face two particularly important choices. The first is between totalitarian surveillance and citizen empowerment. The second is between nationalist isolation and global solidarity.’ - Yuval Noah Harari for the Financial Times
Privacy in the Time of Coronavirus
‘It is not easy for any country to strike a balance between the privacy benefits of law and its countervailing powers. In particular, where safety and health are concerned, it is difficult to draw a line between two types of information: what information should be defended as private, and what information must be accessible to all parties in the public interest, even if one wants to keep it private.’ The article introduces three principles of balancing public interest and personal privacy.- ChinAI Newsletter #86, English translation of a blog post authored by Hu Yong, a Professor at Peking University’s School of Journalism
They Heal - Ils Soignent
This poem in French from the Swiss slam poet Narcisse is the best tribute to healthcare workers I have heard so far:
Good Things Come to Those Who Wait
And this song from Zee Avi sends a message of hope to those who believe that there is no end to this madness.
Stay safe, stay connected, stay sane,
Arina