A strong leader knows that different team members often require different communication tactics, and the “DiSC” behavior assessment system might help you speak everyone’s language and get through to them.

The DiSC behavior assessment is based on the theories of psychologist William Moulton Marston, and it centers on four major behavioral traits that everyone has on some level in the workplace: dominance, influence, compliance, and steadiness. The graphic below from Eastern Nazarene College’s business management masters program explains how to determine what behavioral traits your team members have, how they prefer to work and communicate, and most importantly, how to provide feedback to each type of person. For example, if you’re dealing with someone that has a lot of dominance (they’re competitive, decisive, and independent), direct compliments are a great way to praise them and criticism needs to be very specific. Check it out below to learn more.

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Using DiSC Assessments to Become a Better Leader | Eastern Nazarene College

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Learn How to Lead Different Types of Individuals With the “DiSC” System 

The crew of the US Navy aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower showed that they’re just as excited as us for Star Wars: The Force Awakens with this parody of the movie’s teaser. Can you still call it a sweded trailer if it has actual fighter planes in it?
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Sea Wars: The Ike Awakens

We’ve seen Darth Vader as an evil Imperial enforcer and we have also seen him redeemed as a force ghost. As far as I’m concerned the prequels didn’t happen, so we DID NOT see him as a…
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Darth Vader in Everyday Life

To celebrate the release of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Google has put together a set of skins for its apps which let you demonstrate your allegiance to either the light or dark side.

The tweaks to Google apps include new Gmail backgrounds, a YouTube progress that looks like a light saver, a Maps positions marker that resembles a TIE fighter or X-Wing, and a bunch more subtle tweaks in Chrome, Translate, Chromecast and the like. We prefer the dark side, though we’re not sure what it says about us.

Guaranteed fun, for at least a few minutes. In fact, it’s kind of reminiscent of the custom options you used to get on Windows, where your swapped alert sounds for train whistles and that kind of thing.

Anyway, you can go choose your side now.

[Google]

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Google Lets You Re-Skin Its Apps Using Light or Dark Side Star Wars Themes

MySQL Server 5.7 was released around a month ago, and download numbers show huge interest in upgrading from older MySQL releases. As with any product that is frequently used as core infrastructure in complex systems with numerous interdependencies, major version upgrades of MySQL should be approached with some care. In this post, I will cover […]
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Upgrading to MySQL 5.7 Using the MySQL Repos for Linux

Build one (or all) of these ten lightsabers to make sure that you’re armed and ready when The Force Awakens.

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Shooting a gun – while standing still without facing incoming fire – isn’t complicated. There are four basic components: sight picture, stance (which includes grip), breathing and trigger control. That’s a bit like saying playing the blues isn’t complicated. While … Read More

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Guns for Beginners: Stance

If you share a computer, you might not want everyone who uses your computer to see your username in the login window or fast user switch menu. To hide your name, MacIssues points out you’ll just need a little bit of Terminal skills.

The idea here is to hide you administrative user account so nobody even knows it’s there to be messed with. Provided you’re on OS X Yosemite or higher, you can hide your username pretty easily. Just run this command, substituting your username in for USERNAME:

sudo dscl . create /Users/USERNAME IsHidden 1

This will hide the administrative account from the login window, Users & Groups preferences, and the user switching menu, though you’ll still be able to manually login. It’s not super necessary for most of us, but if you have a lot of different users on a shared computer, it’s a nice way to make it a little tougher for people to tinker with your settings.

How to create hidden administrative accounts in OS X | MacIssues

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Create Hidden Administrative Accounts in OS X from the Terminal

Dating all the way back to Neolithic times, the mortise and tenon is the oldest wood joint known to mankind. While the specific provenance of the joint is unknown, I’m willing to bet the inventor wasn’t a virgin.

In the thousands of years since, craftspeople have developed an almost absurd variety of joints, some of which you learned in the ID shop at school, some of which you’ve never heard of, and that one that you can always see in your head but have forgotten the name of. To help you remember for the next time you’re building something out of wood, or to give you some alternatives for any current designs you’re working on, here are some visual guides:

Joints by Application:

Joints for Chairs, Frames and Tables

Joints for Tabletops and Cabinets

Joints for Boxes and Drawers

Joints by Machine:

Typical Router Joints

CNC Mill Joints, Corner

CNC Mill Joints, Tee and Cross

CNC Mill Joints, Splice

CNC Mill Joints, Box

CNC Mill Joints, Miscellaneous/WTF

Books

Here are some books that those of you researching or making joints may want to peruse:

The Joint Book: The Complete Guide to Wood Joinery

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                                

  

The Complete Guide to Joint-Making

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Joining Wood: Techniques for Better Woodworking

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Classic Joints with Power Tools

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Art Of Japanese Joinery

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Complete Japanese Joinery

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If you’ve got any more joint resources you’d like to see included, please let us know in the comments and we’ll expand this section.

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Reference: The Ultimate Wood Joint Visual Reference Guide