Laura Pike Seeley
@laurapikeseeley
Laura Pike Seeley
Empathy and consideration for your users are foundational elements of change management. The change should serve your people and the business in equal measure. Crafting your messaging with the same eye toward employee experience is critical, and knowing what will improve employee experience means knowing, relating to and responding to your... See more
Laura Pike Seeley • Change Management Communications: Overcoming Resistance Through Empathy
Creativity and Disruption: Creativity is described as emerging from the disruption of these predictive models. When our expectations are challenged or disrupted, it can lead to new ways of thinking and innovative ideas.
Balance Between Order and Chaos: The balance between order (predictive models) and chaos (disruption) is crucial for fostering creativity. Too much order can stifle creativity, while too much chaos can lead to confusion and lack of direction.
Every human brain is different – it’s time to embrace the diversity of our experiences.
The big idea: do we all experience the world in the same way?
We often think about relationships on a spectrum from positive to negative. But the most toxic relationships aren’t the purely negative ones. They’re the ones that are a mix of positive and negative.
Adam Grant • Opinion | Your Most Ambivalent Relationships Are the Most Toxic
More than a penchant for suffering, and more than a need to challenge ourselves, humans are a species that can adapt. In times of flux and epochal change, there’s often a peculiar strain of natural law among nervous, conservative minds — the “natural” way of man is right, so don’t meddle with it. This strain was there when we developed... See more
Jonny Thomson • Philosopher Nick Bostrom's predictions on life in an AI utopia
Living in an age of digital distraction has wreaked havoc on our brains—but there’s much we can do to restore our tech–life balance.
Error | Harvard University Press
With technology racing forward at an ever increasing pace, some advancements can impact us on an unprecedented scale. As shapers of the future, we must strive to understand the consequences and implications of emerging technology. We do this by asking ourselves uncomfortable questions about possible outcomes.
IDEO • To Design a Better Future, Embrace the Uncomfortable
Now, I wonder: what does gentrification look, smell, taste, feel, and sound like? What are the larger implications that accompany these sensory shifts? I want to understand with my whole body, not just with my mind, how increased development and an influx of affluence in this neighborhood shapes peoples’ everyday lived experiences of their home.
The Five Senses of Gentrification
Storoni, a Cambridge-trained eye surgeon and neuroscience researcher, reminds readers that humans are not machines. In fact, she argues against the “linear, continuous, assembly line configuration of work” that the industrial revolution ushered in. In this digital age, she says, human efficiency should “no longer be defined by the quantity of... See more