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Let’s talk about whistle-blowers

Berkonomics

Assuming that a corporate whistle-blower is not tooting about you individually, such a class of people have been granted protections under the law and serve a function that needs to be acknowledged. Motive of the whistle-blower. Note that I use the word “illegal” to differentiate the tell-tale from the legitimate whistle-blower.

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53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators

TechEmpower

At TechEmpower, we frequently talk to startup founders, CEOs, product leaders, and other innovators about their next big tech initiative. It’s part of our job to ask questions about their plans, challenge their assumptions, and suggest paths to success. After all, that’s what tech innovation is all about. Commenting?

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A security flaw in Grindr let anyone easily hijack user accounts

TechCrunch LA

Grindr, one of the world’s largest dating and social networking apps for gay, bi, trans, and queer people, has fixed a security vulnerability that allowed anyone to hijack and take control of any user’s account using only their email address. The reported issue has been fixed.

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LAPD Reports Major Data Breach; Info On Officers, Applicants Compromised

socalTECH

A major data breach at the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), appears to have given hackers access to personal information on roughly 2,500 officers and 17,500 applicants to the department, according to a report on Tuesday.

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Is Social Media Killing Email

SoCal Tech Calendar

Tuesday, November 15, 2011 -- Is Social Media Killing Email. Youve seen the headlines: 9 Reasons Why Email is Dead. With the seemingly endless reports about the death of email, its no wonder that the commonly-held myth of decreased email usage exists. Only 6aid they were using it less often.

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Hire a consultant; ignore the advice!

Berkonomics

The work continued for about eight weeks between the two of us as we visited the 27 locations and worked with employees in departments across all disciplines within each location and at central offices that performed services for all locations. We were quite confident that our services would yield great, measurable results.

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To directors and advisors: “Noses in; fingers OUT!”

Berkonomics

Many of us have someone who reports directly to us and who supervises others in return. My lesson learned about this mantra: [Email readers, continue here…] After returning to my office, I received a call from the CEO. Well, this one is for you. Where did this statement come from? I could not have been more pleased.

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