What if work processes are actually making you LESS productive?

From here, let me screen-cap something for you:

Read that once or twice. I’ll wait.

Think of how “tech adoption” usually works

Because tech is usually a big purchase, said purchase is made by someone of a high rank. A “decision-maker,” as the parlance goes. A “C-Suiter,” perhaps.

I’ve worked at lots of places, and while I’ve largely been a peon admittedly, I’ve never been consulted on these purchases, even though I’d be the one using the shit all day.

Here’s a funny story: one of my good friends just switched roles within a company. In her exit interview from Role 1, she talks to an executive about how they could use Salesforce more effectively in that department. The executive, who probably signed the purchase order for Salesforce, says “What’s Salesforce?”

Is this a face palm? Sure.

But in other ways, it’s not. High-ranking men in companies are insulated from the work. They see the outcomes and supposedly “do things” with that information. (ROFLMAO, no they don’t.) They have no idea how…