Adapting Organisations For A Post-Industrial Age With Adaptologist Neil Harrison

The Unified Team

What's the most adaptive species on the planet?

Some say rats or cockroaches. Despite being low in the food chain, they adapt to their surroundings. Many stronger and more powerful species have been wiped out long before them.

Some that argue that humans are the most adaptive.

Our intelligence and co-operation has enabled us to live in every climate. We can also change the environment to suit us. The last 300 years have been about manipulating the environment to create the world we know.

It's been an act of monumental intelligence...

...and equally monumental stupidity.

It took massive intelligence and resourcefulness to secure our survival. But the changes created a wealth of new problems and threats we hadn't considered. Global warming is the headline of these.

But there are many more that we are all facing in our workplaces.

Burnout. Disengagement. The great resignation.

These are symptoms of our evolved biology conflicting with an artificial world.

Neil Harrison is co-founder of The Adaptologists.

He was involved in many change projects as a Change Manager. Seeing people break down in tears because he was the first person to listen to them had a profound effect on Neil. He saw a need for change that enabled people, rather than change for a specific outcome.

With his co-founder Amanda Greenwood, they set out to try to help companies adapt to a post-industrial age world.

In today's podcast episode he shared insights and experiences from his journey.