The two AI mistakes hurting your team's productivity, with Dom Price
About this episode
Amantha Imber interviews Dom Price about the mistakes organizations make in AI adoption and how to improve productivity.
We're using AI more than ever. And yet, according to research from Glean's Work AI Institute, only 10% of Australians say AI is significantly improving organisational performance. The truth is that most organisations have done what Dom Price calls the "Woodstock theory" of AI adoption: build it and they will come. Throw the tools out there, hope people figure it out, and wait for the productivity miracle that never quite arrives. In this episode, I sit down with Dom Price, former Atlassian work futurist and one of the sharpest thinkers I know on how organisations actually work. Dom joins me off the back of new Australian research showing the enormous gap between AI adoption and AI impact, and we dig into exactly why that gap exists and what to do about it. If you care about building genuine AI capability in your team rather than just looking busy with AI, this conversation will make you rethink where to start. Dom and I discuss: The "Woodstock theory" of AI adoption, and why most organisations are getting almost nothing back for their investment Botsitting and botshitting…
People in this episode
Host: Amantha Imber
Guest: Dom Price
Topics covered
- AI adoption
- productivity
- organizational performance
- workplace efficiency
- leadership
- technology
Keywords
- AI
- productivity
- Woodstock theory
- botsitting
- botshitting
- organizational impact
- leadership bottleneck
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Glean's Work AI Institute, Atlassian, Claude
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