Former Google HR Chief Laszlo Bock Aims To Revolutionize People Management With Humu

Laszlo Bock is one of the most famous heads of Human Resources ever. Part of this is that he lead HR at Google, and he initiated a number of innovative practices, many of which were captured in his book, Work Rules!: Insights from Inside Google That Will Transform How You Live and Lead.

Part of the reason why other HR execs have not become household names is that companies do not think of HR as being as strategic as they should, and therefore the Chief Human Resources Officer is not on an equal footing with the other “chiefs.”

Two and a half years ago, Bock co-founded a company, Humu, that helps CHROs among other executives ensure that teams are as productive and as happy as possible. He has leveraged his experience at Google and GE before that along with the work of prominent academics to develop what Humu refers to as “nudges” or reminders, timed at just the right time to impact behaviors in a positive fashion. Bock describes the genesis of Humu, the technology behind these nudges, and the impact he intends make at companies large and small as a result of Humu. Ultimately, he believes that we are on the cusp of a revolution in human resources akin to the operations and manufacturing revolutions of a century ago.

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How To Make $1 Million From Hacking: Meet Six Hacker Millionaires

Who wants to be a hacking millionaire? For most technically competent folk starting on a cybersecurity career path the pull of a million-dollar hacking payday is tempered by the threat of a lengthy spell in jail should they get caught.

Or at least it is if your idea of a hacker is someone who breaks into stuff illegally. I call those people criminals, threat actors and, to be honest, pretty dumb. After all, there’s plenty of money to be made uncovering vulnerabilities and generally making the data-driven world we live in a little bit safer, all without breaking the law.

Apple has offered $1 million (£820,000) to anyone who can hack the iOS kernel of an iPhone without requiring any clicks by the user. Exploit acquisition platform Zerodium, meanwhile, is offering $2 million (£1.6 million) for anyone who can pull of a “zero-click” remote jailbreak of an iPhone. In the meantime, six hackers on the HackerOne bug bounty platform have now made more than $1 million each.

Here’s how they did it.

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McAfee CEO Chris Young Contemplates The Future Of Cyber Security

Chris Young began his career in cyber security before the term was coined. Back in the 1990s, when Young was in his 20s, his first security company, Cyveillance, which he co-founded, considered itself to be in the “info stack” space.

After multiple leadership roles in cyber security, for the past three years, Young has been the Chief Executive Officer of McAfee, a $2.5 billion revenue device-to-cloud cybersecurity company with 97 million enterprise endpoints and 525 million consumer endpoints. McAfee operates in 189 countries, serving 80% of Fortune 100 firms, more than two-thirds of the Global 2000.

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Why Your Business Needs to Master Digital Platforms Thinking and Design

In today’s ultra-competitive marketplace, every company whether they realize it or not, is creating multiple digital platforms. Why? Because platforms transcend traditional value chains and enable companies to create new business value. What this really means is companies are moving away from processes to platforms to create competitive advantages. The top 10 Fortune 500 companies are platform companies (Apple, Facebook, Google and Salesforce, for example). Moving forward, companies that master platform thinking and design will be the champions. Such is the power of this new way of thinking that most if not all firms are in the process of assembling and refining., If you and your company are to fully benefit from them, you need to understand why this is happening and how you can take advantage of it.

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How Artificial Intelligence Is Preventing Cognitive Overload, Compassion Fatigue And Job Burnout

Organizations are beginning to grasp the severity of burnout and the impact it has on your life and health in the long term. Work can be stressful, and due to many factors including a combination of hours, tasks, measurement and intensity, some jobs result in mental, physical and emotional exhaustion. If stress accumulates to a breaking point, you reach overload, fatigue and ultimately burnout.

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Starbucks Chases Amazon Into The Cloud With Investment In Tech Startup Brightloom

Since Starbucks said late Monday that it will license its in-house digital technology to startup Brightloom, which sells cloud-based software to the restaurant industry, Brightloom CEO Adam Brotman has been busy fielding requests from restaurants, including major national chains. They asked “when they can potentially be our customers,” Brotman said

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How To Stay Ahead Of Evolving, Unpredictable Digital Platforms

All of the most valuable firms in the world today are platforms, starting with Apple, Microsoft, Google, and Amazon. But platforms do not evolve in predictable ways, and there is a lot that managers and entrepreneurs can learn about past, present, and future platform strategies. To shed light on the

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