Wednesday, May 18, 2022

Managers, What Are You Doing About Change Exhaustion?

Coalition loves showering public companies with taxpayers’ money. How does that sit with budget repair?


Luna price collapses below $5 as UST slides further from dollar peg The Block


Coinbase warns its 98 million customers they may lose ALL their crypto if company goes bankrupt after shares plunged 27% this weekDaily Mail. From the Coinbase user User Agreement 


86 400 transformed into ubank

by Jayden Fennell | May 17, 2022

Smart bank 86 400 will now be known as ubank, following its merger with Australia’s first digital bank. Creating a great digital citizen experience for AustraliansThe partnership means more than 8,000 brokers will have access to the banks’ products.

86 400 transformed into ubank by Jayden Fennell



Many taxpayers feel that they may be missing out on deductions in their tax returns.


 The Australian federal government’s digital ID programme, which was launched six years ago, is over-engineered and has cost too much for what has been delivered, according to the government’s former chief information officer, Glenn Archer.

Archer – who was closely involved with the early days of the digital identity programme as chair of the government authentication governance committee – also told InnovationAus.com that he “despairs” of the lack of progress on the myGov portal linked to the identity verification system and that the decision to outsource much of the work on it was a “huge mistake”.

‘Not a lot to show’ for Australia’s $400m digital ID programme, says former government CIO


Read more: Australia launches public consultation on digital identity programme


Managers, What Are You Doing About Change Exhaustion? Harvard Business Review

Harvard Business Review: “Summary. How can leaders help their teams combat change exhaustion — or step out of its clutches? Too often, organizations simply encourage their employees to be resilient, placing the burden of finding ways to feel better solely on individuals. Leaders need to recognize… Re-orgs, leadership transitions, new technologies. 

Pre-Covid, many employees already were experiencing change fatigue, defined as feeling apathetic towards or overwhelmed by too many organizational changes in a row. When Covid hit, everything changed. We remember a tweet from digital health consultant Simon Terry that resonated with us: “Change fatigue. Resilience fatigue. Agility fatigue. WFH fatigue. Video-conference fatigue. Online schooling fatigue. Restriction fatigue. Conflict fatigue. Fatigue fatigue. 2020 – the international year of fatigue.” The heightened level of uncertainty in both our work and home lives pushed many of us into change exhaustion. Gartner found thatemployees’ ability to cope with change in 2020 was at 50% of pre-pandemic levels. 

How can leaders help their teams combat change exhaustion — or step out of its clutches? Too often, organizations simply encourage their employees to be resilient, placing the burden of finding ways to feel better solely on individuals. Leaders need to recognize that change exhaustion is not an individual issue, but a collective one that needs to be addressed at the team or organization level. 

Based on research we did for our book Big Feelings, here are four practices leaders can use to help their team or organization collectively combat change exhaustion…”




MakeUseOf:  “The dark web has many legitimate and legal purposes, despite its sinister reputation. A mention of the dark web usually conjures up ominous and sinister imagery. While the dark web is certainly home to some questionable content, it also has a number of legitimate uses, from helping citizens circumvent government censorship, to adding an extra layer of anonymity to email services. Here are 12 legitimate reasons for using the dark web…”

12 Legitimate Uses for the Dark Web - MakeUseOf



In Custodia Legis: “Over the past six months, the Law Library has held many webinars on topics concerning foreign, comparative, and international law, Law Library collections, as well as our recurring orientations on how to research U.S. case law, federal statutes, and federal regulations. The Law Library also presented its annual Supreme Court Fellows Lecture and Human Rights Day events, as well as a webinar on Environmental Law Research. With so many webinars and events, you may have missed something from the past six months. Luckily, we recorded these events and they are available in several places. You can find Law Library events on our YouTube page and on the Library of Congress’s film and video page. To view any Law Library webinars, you can check out our YouTube webinar recordings playlist



Sic ’em Rex: forget the election, one principled politician is fighting for tiny Timor instead

by  | May 11, 2022

Former submariner Rex Patrick has found time to stick a periscope up the collective clacker of the Australian government over its cruel treatment of its poorest neighbour. Senator Patrick’s battle with the bureaucracy reveals Australia’s problem with transparency, reports Callum Foote.



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