• The changing influence of culture and technology at work and the battle for the mind

    I work in a field that frequently deals with changing the culture of work through managed change engagements. They are most often aligned to new technology adoption or digital transformation efforts. In all this work, the typical influencers present themselves: people, technology and process. I’m exploring the first two in this post and assuming people…


  • If music be the food of work play on

    I’ve produced some of my best creative work with the right music. It’s often accompanied by coffee, in a coffee shop. But the crucial ingredient is music. Here is a playlist I put together with some of my faves. Chill background music that get my creative juices fired up and don’t distract. Photo by Tim Gouw on Unsplash.


  • Welcome to the adventures

    Thanks for visiting. This is a welcome post to orient you around what this site covers and its core focus areas. Find out more about the author of this site, adventures and latest work by going to the about page. If you look at the sidebar of full posts, a list of categories and tags…


  • Beyond Technology Adoption – Business Scenarios with Microsoft Teams

    Microsoft Teams is such an incredible work productivity tool. It doesn’t just bring work from other applications into the conversation but the whole tool itself. That plus the ability it offers to structure activities into logical workflows provides perfect context for bringing business scenarios to life. Business scenarios are an important mechanism in beyond adoption to…


  • Meaning and models as future work motivators

    We don’t all have the luxury to question why we are working and to what end. Many are in dead end, soul sapping or even worse, life endangering jobs. But the reality is they have no choice. No choice but to toil in whatever adversity they find themselves because there is no alternative On the…


  • Leading the right behaviours through metrics and new work models

    Metrics drive behaviour. Organisations also know that they can better manage, what they can measure. So if you want to change behaviours, look at the metrics you are using and how they are driving behaviours. You also need to look at the models and frameworks in which the metrics are contextualised and which drive them.…