How I Work Inside the hardest year at Inventium (Part 1)
Oct 29, 2025
Aly Solly, a team member at Inventium, shares her insights from the company's most challenging year, addressing trust issues and burnout head-on. She recounts how hierarchical changes led to division rather than collaboration. Aly reveals her struggles with burnout and the unsettling feeling of seeking new job opportunities. A pivotal moment comes during a vulnerable debrief that helps rebuild trust. The conversation delves into the emotional toll of retrenchments and culminates in a transformative phone call that restores connection.
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High Performance Fails Without Cohesion
- High performers can underperform when working in silos and not together.
- Aly compared the team to 'super chickens' that pecked each other and lost productivity.
Structure Can Create Division
- Well-intended structural changes created stronger hierarchy but fractured the team.
- Amantha regrets the added hierarchy because it divided people and reduced collaboration.
Change Feels Like An Attack On Identity
- New leadership tried to change Inventium's ways of working and triggered resistance.
- Aly says attacks on their core practices felt like an assault on Inventium's DNA and created resentment.