Business: Information Security

Information Security

Written by Trevor Barre

Another ‘Leadership Today’ free monthly E-zine brought to you by Trevor Barre – Life Coach

Issue 12/2001

INFORMATION SECURITY

This month, I would like to take repparttar opportunity to address repparttar 106728 need for organisations everywhere to have a good, hard look at their level, or lack of information security. Just this week, yet another worm (virus) attacked PCs around repparttar 106729 world, causing havoc.

As a leader, it is our responsibility to set repparttar 106730 example, and lead from out in front. Take repparttar 106731 time this week to see where you stand individually, and corporately, with such things as:

-Up-to-date Information Security policy -Business Continuity Plans (get top level commitment, initiate repparttar 106732 BCM process, identify & manage all risks, develop strategies, etc) -Current anti-virus software, and ongoing subscription -Employee training -Employee Internet access (a huge issue!!) -Firewalls to prevent unauthorised access to your records -Disposal of PCs, and deletion of data.

How to Stop Wasting Precious Time

Written by Mike Moore

HOW TO STOP WASTING PRECIOUS TIME by Mike Moore www.motivationalplus.com

Twenty four hours a day minus repparttar eight hours we sleep leaves us with 16 productive hours to accomplish things that need to be done at home and at work. Of these 16 hours, a lot of time is wasted due to distractions, interruptions and disorganization. We just don't manage our time well.

THE TOP SIX TIME WASTERS

1. Television: We average four hours a day watching television. If we live to be 72 it works out to 12 solid years wasted watching TV. This doesn't include time spent on repparttar 106727 internet. SOLUTION? Go on frequent television fasts.

2. Emailing back and forth: Email becomes time consuming when you consider how often we check it and how frequently we are involved in sending back and forth messages. A survey was done by repparttar 106728 American Management Association with these results: Of repparttar 106729 400 business managers polled.....35% use email to communicate with clients...26% prefer repparttar 106730 phone...15% would rather have face to face meetings. Interesting results when you consider repparttar 106731 time email consumes.

3. Junk mail of repparttar 106732 traditional kind. Too much time is wasted opening and then trashing unwanted mail.

4. Drop in visits: When you are in your office with repparttar 106733 door open you are an open invitation to those with nothing better to do to drop in for a chat. When they do, they eat up a lot of your precious time. SOLUTION? Keep your door closed. If you don't want to close your door arrange your desk in such a way that people passing by can't see you and drop in for a visit.

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