Just been catching up on the wave of promotional emails sent during the festive break, from Microsoft right through to small start-ups, all advertising their new enhancements to AI technologies that enable deal with everything during my full day or back-to-back meetings, full email box or endless Team chats.

It seems to me that much of the technology that has been introduced over the years has led to this situation where little or no time is spent actually thinking and doing. My mind paints a picture of being thrown a lifebelt from the ship that caused my vessel to capsize in the first place.

I’ll be interested to see when and how AI starts to deal with guiding me on behaviours to actually stop being in back-to-back meetings and having endless Team chats and emails. I guess I already know the answer. It’s a ‘cultural’ or behavioural trait that causes the problem. The technology is only trying to help lighten a heavy load.

What we need to move away from is continually adapting to the situations are own behaviours create and start adopting new mindsets on the way we work.