Benefiting at work from Brain Based Insights

Did Albert Einstein describe your firm when he warned … Our technology has exceeded our humanity?

Some workers tell you that technology has atrophied human brainpower. Or perhaps where you work, it has simply provided workers … as Aldous Huxley predicted … with more efficient means for going backwards.

Are mental problems surfacing where you work while technology increases its mechanical grip?

I’ve tracked 10 growing concerns  heard and seen lately as possible danger signs:

1. People pass up human contact or miss interactions with colleagues … while they chase emails, set up online conferences, and respond to customer concerns on computers.

2. Changing demands increase while requirements to update and advance skills grow faster than employees can keep up… with benefits snatched up by few.

3. Technology jargon lacks meaning for many and so the interactions most commonly engaged at work tend to ostracize otherwise intelligent workers.

4. Mechanistic approaches trump talents from workers … and bosses claim creative innovations at work simply waste workers’ time or company resources.

5. System maintenance problems prevent potential outcomes … and create frustrations through faulty systems that reduce the bottom line.

6. Power is grasped by a few who chart technological beams … while darker pathways still tend to reduce visible opportunities for a vast majority of workers.

7. Decisions from seasoned technicians can neglect  more artistic expressions … or exclude of other diverse insights from the workplace mix.

8. Stress increases as workers trade freedom to think in multiple ways … for tighter compliance with technology’s singularly acceptable way.

9. Distractions pour in well after hours … extending work … yet robbing people’s rest and restoration … through technology's access from multiple terminals.

10. Networks spider globally … with little personal meaning … while locally, dissatisfied workers tend to feel increasingly displaced and devalued.

Wherever technology adds speedy communication, accurate manufacturing, or fine digital designs … you can be sure of opposite dangers … that organizational brainpower is likely lost in its wake. Have you seen it happen?

Stay tuned to brain based business that fosters invention while also creating technological advances … with respect for mental consequences. In the meantime … what are your thoughts on the topic?