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Many aspiring leaders sabotage their own prospects. What sinks their boat? Poor digital habits. That glance at your phone while with a customer. Enough to break trust. The few seconds checking out a reel while in a business review. Enough to plant doubt about your commitment. The multi-tasking with email during a 1:1. Makes you appear disconnected. Poor digital habits affect your decision making while decreasing resilience. After all, you can't effectively lead others until you can confidently lead yourself! https://lnkd.in/g96WXKmY

Doom spending is peak 2024. It's this phenomenon where people use retail therapy to cope with the anxiety and pessimism due to doomscrolling. Social commerce (you know, when people buy stuff on TikTok, Snap or other platforms) is likely close to 25% of e-commerce now. According to data from Simon-Kucher Gen-Z, which spends the greatest time online showed up big time for large shopping events like Black Friday, Amazon Prime Day. Where did they not show up as much? Shop Small Saturday. How social media companies will use their AI-powered tools to further ratchet up user anxiety is still unknown - but rest assured, they have a shopping retreat waiting to catch you if you need to doom spend!

Brain Rot is the 2024 Word Of The Year. What does it mean? It's defined as the “supposed deterioration of a person’s mental or intellectual state, especially viewed as the result of overconsumption of material (now particularly online content) considered to be trivial or unchallenging” Can you measure Brain Rot? Not really. Can you feel it? Yes. https://lnkd.in/dwtNqwpb

Guess which "solutions" Redditors offered to the OP? Yep. Restrictions, detoxes, app timers and constraints. Just asking someone to "get a hobby" or "use their phone less", is often not sufficient support or guidance. They know that too. The magic is in learning how. Elite athletes and performers know that it's never just 1 thing. It's the routine, the system or the framework that gets you to your goal, consistently. It's the same thing with digital habits.

This will be an interesting experiment by social media companies. Could re-setting your feed algorithm offer rebuild how you engage with these platforms? Without the underlying business model changing (i.e. ads for attention) we're not sure how this leads to different outcomes - but worth tracking! https://lnkd.in/gJczXtKn

Save 25% until November 24th. If your leadership potential has been stymied because of lack of focus, inability to prioritize or being unable to come up with creative solutions -- there could be a hidden derailer. Your Screentime. Poor digital habits (think doomscrolling at night, looking at devices instead of co-workers etc.) can weaken interpersonal connections, reduce your resilience and hamper decision making. In February, we'll unpack how to get your digital habits back in shape - so that you are putting your best foot forward in your career and life. Here is the registration link for this course on Maven. https://lnkd.in/gm_xZtdM

Women, on average, have 13 percent less free time than men. If that free time is spent doomscrolling vs. things like exercise -- they're paying the price in more ways than one. Insightful article in the The New York Times today. Gift link below. https://lnkd.in/guFkSiCF

Washington school Superintendent Chris Reykdal has asked districts to create a plan to restrict cellphone use in class by the start of the 2025-26 school year.  We continue to remain advocates that any policy of restriction should be complemented by education for both students and parents for how to develop positive relationships with technology. https://lnkd.in/gPp6uvsE

Exciting News! SHRM has granted us recertification provider status. This means that HR professionals can receive Professional Development Credits (PDCs) to use toward their recertification -- while learning how to create supportive digital cultures in their organization, support hybrid and virtual teams who struggle with their digital habits and much more!

People often think of their phones when it comes to mindless scrolling. But what about TV? - 84% of Viewers Scroll Aimlessly when looking for something to watch on streaming platforms. - Habit browsing. is a thing! Nearly one-fifth of viewers (19%) say they struggle to find something to watch when they don’t have anything specific in mind and 18% admit to starting, stopping and selecting something else many times during a viewing session. - Oh, and the trend to watch social content on TVs is continuing to rise. A third watch social video content (e.g. YouTube) on their big screens several times a week.