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WORK, DISRUPTED

Work, Disrupted is a series of best-practice case studies and thought leadership on how to build adaptable organizations

By Joanne Griffin 24 Oct, 2022
Despite the quickening pace of adoption of consumer technologies, enterprise technologies, are merely inching along the technology maturity curve. Many well-known enterprise applications have yet to go ‘mainstream’ or achieve the levels of adoption experienced by consumer apps. Organisations are being forced to consider the needs and preferences of their employees—or risk dire consequences, including high employee turnover and poor productivity. Consumers demand the same ease of use, functionality, and visual appeal from the technology solutions they use in the workplace as they do from ordinary applications. In spite of this, enterprise solutions frequently overlook the end-user in favour of superior technical ability. The result is that many enterprise applications are designed with buyers, not end-users, in mind.
By Joanne Griffin 28 Sep, 2022
In this short article, we explore the concept of 'egosystems to ecosystems' and how it has the potential to change the way we think about business and growth. An obsession with short-term growth-at-all costs has led us here - where next?
Superhero with a SCARF
By Joanne Griffin 29 Aug, 2022
The SCARF Model is a useful tool to help us to reflect on the ways we might unintentionally threaten and undermine important stakeholder relationships, and to think intentionally about how to maximise psychological safety and reward for healthy working relationships. It’s certainly worth becoming familiar with the wide range of potential psychological and social threats that create avoidance behaviors in others. Learn to spot threats early. Become sensitive to them so that you’re less likely to unintentionally create threats that demotivate others and cause unnecessary roadblocks for yourself.
By Joanne Griffin 19 Aug, 2022
Between new technologies and our daily media consumption, the volume of information is expanding way beyond our brain’s capacity to process it. Our appetite for knowledge far exceeds our ability to digest it. We snack on quick bytes all day long, and yet never feel satiated. And yet, we’re always hungry for more — our eyes are bigger than our bellies. How many bookmarked articles go unread, how many books gather dust on our shelves, and how many of our best ideas get relegated to the end of our to-do lists?
By Joanne Griffin 19 Aug, 2022
While we are adopting technologies faster than ever before, a new kind of lag is creeping into our lives impacting the ways we use and benefit from the technology available to us — we call this Human Lag. Simply put, human lag exists when innovation surpasses adaptation.
Juggling while balancing on an elephant
By Joanne Griffin 08 Mar, 2022
For all of the headlines about technology’s ability to make us more productive, we seem to be working more hours — not less. And while we feel busier than ever, it’s hard to avoid the feeling that we’re not getting very much done. How can that be? Why is it that in spite of all these advances, we end up working harder than ever?
Poster I love spreadsheets from Etsy
By Joanne Griffin 29 Aug, 2021
I love spreadsheets! I genuinely do. It may possibly be the nerdiest thing I’ve ever admitted to. Maybe it’s the IKEA effect, having invested 20 years honing vlookup skills, formatting pivot tables, and choosing just the right graph to make my financial data mean something to someone, or maybe I just like the feeling of sinking into that comfortable spreadsheet memory foam. Don’t get me wrong, my spreadsheets are far from perfect, but I just can’t walk away.
By Joanne Griffin 23 Jun, 2021
When you want to commit to change you need a commitment strategy, not an exit strategy! As far back as Sun Tzu's treatise 'The Art of War' a military strategy of burning the boats once they set out to seize land. The concept of no turning back works well when we want to commit, but our willpower is working against us.
By Joanne Griffin 21 May, 2021
For those of us on Clubhouse — what do you remember about the sign up process? A text from a friend? maybe a link? How about Zoom, or Calendly, or Slack? These are the apps that go from ‘New Kid on the Block’ to a central part of your tech stack in light speed. The virality of these tools ensures they remain the darlings of the product-led growth world and are deeply embedded into your daily tech stack — sometimes unintentionally!
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