Management consultants often lecture about psychological safety and psychosocial hazards, using impressive terms that sound great in theory. But managers and team leaders are often left to piece together the rhetoric, struggling to address micro-conflicts effectively at the coalface.
SpatzAI: Making Good Team Players Great
SpatzAI is designed for team players committed to fairness, accountability, and disciplined collaboration. It’s not for everyone—and that’s intentional. To ensure success, SpatzAI vets potential team players by testing their willingness to embrace SpatzAI’s core principles:
Disciplined Teams Are Great Teams
"A culture of discipline is not a principle of business; it is a principle of greatness." Jim Collins - Good to Great
What is Generative Tension
In my opinion, generative tension refers to a constructive form of micro-conflict or disagreement that stimulates creativity, innovation, and growth within a team or organization....
The Problem With Conflict Resolution Is That It’s Expensive
The Problem With Conflict Resolution Is That It's Expensive So why not address team micro-conflicts as they occur?
How Does SpatzAI Work?
SpatzAI Fairer Teamwork Globally "If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking". For over 20 years, I’ve worked on distilling micro-conflicts into something simple, actionable, and universal.
Culture in Focus: How We Work, Behave and Misbehave
The way things are done around here. The way we behave when we are doing things around here. The way we behave when we misbehave doing things around here. It is numbers 2 & 3 that I am most interested in.
In Plane View: SpatzAI and the Art of Designing Systems for Leadership
In many ways, leaders are like commercial pilots, and the sophisticated planes they fly are the systems they use to transport their crew (the team) and passengers (their customers).
Resolving Micro-Conflicts: How SpatzAI is Changing the Game for Teams
In modern workplaces, where culture and environment are more important than ever, even the smallest conflicts—micro-conflicts—can undermine team dynamics if not addressed early and directly. That’s where SpatzAI comes in.
The Polarizing Trap: Overly Agreeing and Overly Disagreeing
Have you ever paused to reflect on the way people agree with you? Responses like "Absolutely!" or "1000 percent!" might feel affirming in the moment, but they come with a hidden cost. Whatever happened to a straightforward "I agree"?
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