Amy Edmondson’s model of psychological safety has transformed how we think about team dynamics. Her work shows that teams thrive when members feel safe to speak up, make mistakes, and challenge one another without fear of punishment. It’s a brilliant and necessary foundation. However....
The Spatz-Time Continuum and Temporal Dynamics
Just as physics taught us that time and space are one, Spatz teaches us that behavior and response time are one.
SpatzAI: The Loonshot to Land Fairness on Every Device in the Workplace by 2035
Today, I’m lighting a different fuse: "By 2035, I believe a fairness procedure and system will be standard in workplace teams globally, not through policies or posters, but through a real-time, structured system similar to SpatzAI".
Mastery and Cooperation: Why One Without the Other Fails – And How SpatzAI Can Bridge the Gap
In today’s work environments, mastery is often celebrated—technical brilliance, innovation, and domain expertise are rewarded and revered. But as the MIT Sloan Management Review article "Today’s Essential Power Skill for Leaders: Cooperation" makes clear, mastery alone doesn’t keep teams thriving. In fact, without cooperation, mastery can quietly unravel.
Disengagement Might be the Missing Link to Psychological Safety?
When it comes to teamwork, I believe we should be using the same playbook—aligned and in agreement on our values and rules of engagement and disengagement—but that is the only alignment necessary.
Psychological Safety Has a Blind Spot. SpatzAI Might Just Fill It.
SpatzAI - A fair way to disagree. A structured way to resolve. And a scalable way to grow.
Escalate the STAIR Way
It starts the way it often does, quietly. A team member has an issue with her manager. Maybe he cut her off in a meeting. Maybe he dismissed her work publicly or was overly dogmatic in his curt response. Whatever it was, it didn’t sit right.
Managing Up: People Don’t Leave Their Job, They Leave Their Managers!
Managing Up: People Don’t Leave Their Job, They Leave Their Managers!
