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Perform extraordinarily. Asking for any kind of flexibility must be based on delivering great results and having a positive track record. Work is an exchange and we humans value reciprocity—we give to get. So, if you’ve proven your skills and made a great contribution to-date, you’ll be in a strong position to ask for flexibility. If you’re having trouble showing your engagement, it may be wise to shore up your performance before you make requests. Deliver a straightforward request. Be sure you’re prepared with specifics. Rather than suggesting in a general way that you’d like more flexibility, provide details. Maybe you want to work from home mornings before 9 a.m., or perhaps you want to request a second monitor or you would like the freedom to work on another part of your company’s campus sometimes, away from your workstation. Whatever your desire, be specific. Also suggest a trial period. Often, leaders are more open to trying a flexible … [Read more...] about 5 ways to ask your boss for more flexibility at work

I once taught an in-person program that I initially thought relied on PowerPoint. When we couldn’t get the visuals to work, it wasn’t a problem because I was able to interact with the audience and explain the message without the slides. Had we been virtual, it would have been so much harder to keep the audience’s attention since virtual meetings rely so much on the visual aspect. … [Read more...] about 3 ways communication will change after the pandemic

The NYPD’s own statistics show that it ran almost 10,000 facial recognition searches against its DAS database in 2019, leading to 2,510 “possible matches.” This may have been significantly understated. BuzzFeed News reported in February 2020 that the department had run more than 11,000 searches using the controversial Clearview AI technology. Clearview AI says it works with 600 law enforcement agencies in the U.S., and DataWorks Plus’s Face Plus technology is widely used by law enforcement agencies across the country. … [Read more...] about These crowdsourced maps will show exactly where surveillance cameras are watching

 QUADRANEURAL ACCELERATION After ten years of trial and error, teams of four truly seem to be the “Goldilocks number”—not too much, not too little, but just right. It’s so important to the idea-generation process that I decided to give it a name. … [Read more...] about The creative power of 4—and how it can make your teams more productive

The auditors themselves also don’t have a clear reason to be as critical as necessary—especially if the company they’re auditing is the one writing the check. It’s a mistake to assume that analyzing algorithms is a purely mathematical process with an objectively correct answer—there are countless subjective choices in each specific audit. These choices can easily tip an audit towards a favorable view of the client. If there isn’t a market incentive or governmental backstop to prevent that, this will happen far more often than it should, and algorithmic auditing won’t be as effective. … [Read more...] about Independent auditors are struggling to hold AI companies accountable