ADHD At Work For Leaders

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by Gary CohenWhen I learned I had ADHD at age 40, I was grateful to have a label for my way of being. I read all I could on the subject. In the process, I discovered compensatory strategies for leading myself and others.

One of the most effective strategies I employed was to change how people reported to me.

Negotiating terms and conditions to reach an agreement

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A married couple was debating whether their four-year-old daughter should attend public or private elementary school. It was a difficult issue, and Mike had a tendency to walk out when the conversation got heated. Frustrated, Lisa turned to negotiating terms and conditions just as a negotiator would in a business deal.
Lisa imposed a condition on

Five Ways to Ethically Manage a Brand's Online Reputation

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The Reputation Institute has declared businesses now compete in "a new marketplace reality in which people buy products, take jobs, and make investments based primarily on their trust, admiration and appreciation for the companies and institutions that stand behind them." One might contend that reputation has always been the cornerstone of any business -- 30 years ago we were introduced to the phrase "nobody ever got fired for buying IBM" -- but there is no dispute that the nature of reputation-building has changed.

EnerNOC, SunPower Cross Market to Commercial Customers

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SunPower entered a three-year partnership agreement with EnerNOC. SunPower will exclusively offer EnerNOC’s energy intelligence software to its commercial and industrial solar customers in the US and Canada. EnerNOC will exclusively offer SunPower solar solutions to its enterprise customers. As part of the agreement, SunPower will start deploying EnerNOC’s software-as-a-service bundled with solar to its   ...Continue Reading
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Overcoming Challenges in Securing the Internet of Things | @ThingsExpo [#IoT]

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At some point in the near future, our alarm clock will ring when the biometric scanner monitoring our sleep indicates we have achieved optimum rest. Our clock will connect with the coffee maker, and a steaming cup of brew will be waiting, while the lighting system in our home gradually brightens to imitate a sunrise, waking us up slowly.

BetterCloud Raises $25 Million From Accel To Create Universal Tools For Monitoring The Office Cloud

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 The cloud revolution continues to gobble up old players, and none more so than in office productivity. Microsoft, once the Borg of office software with its Office and Exchange products, has faced immense competition to its Office 365 online subscription service from Google and now even from Apple, which brought its own online versions of Pages and Numbers out of beta last month. That… Read More

Apple enrages open-source community with FoundationDB shutdown

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Apple has caused a bit of a ruckus in the open-source community with its acquisition of FoundationDB, a company that leads the development of the highly specialized, speedy and durable NoSQL database that bears the same name. The acquisition was … Continue reading →

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