In my opinion, when it comes to getting Psychological Safety into your team or organization, there is no better way to start than creating a level playing field, especially when disagreeing with your manager, boss, or CEO.You would never have to worry about what you said in front of them, knowing that if you did... Continue Reading →
How Does Your Team Tackle Bullying?
Bullying works. If it didn't work, there wouldn't be any.At times, people in a team will bully or use coercive behavior to unfairly affect the outcome of a decision. Obviously bullying in teams will influence the decision-making process and affect the actual choices made. This may explain why so many startup teams fail. If you... Continue Reading →
Is Psychological Safety a Myth?
If someone claimed that a particular startup team or organization has a high level of Psychological Safety, you would expect that the team members would be able to answer a series of psych. safety questions in unison, right? Taking this test should be an accurate and objective way to prove one way or the other... Continue Reading →
Google Does Evil
I think everyone should see the latest movie on Netflix, The Billion Dollar Code and make Google pay for their corrupt behavior in some way. Google does do evil, in my opinion.
Patrick Carlyon: An open letter to aggressive anti-vaxxers
There aren’t many of you, are there? The numbers tell us that. Seventeen out of every 20 Victorians has had at least a first jab, and rising. That means those who will not get vaccinated represent a small minority of Victorians. Some of you, like rusted-on One Nation members, believe that it’s not about saying... Continue Reading →
Is a Conflict Resolution Strategy the Psychological Safety Strategy?
Unresolved conflict in the workplace is not something anyone wants; I think we all can safely agree? So it makes sense that we should have a conflict management strategy to make the workplace physically and psychologically safe. So which strategy comes first, a Psychological Safety strategy or a Conflict Management strategy? Hmmm, good question, grasshopper.... Continue Reading →
Empowering Startup Team Decision-making
In 2005 I tried to warn our startup team of three about taking on the wrong investors & was dismissed as a "loose cannon," so I deferred to the them. At the time, we didn't even recognize the team's behavior as uncivil or toxic.Three years later, and after $2M invested, we lost everything due to... Continue Reading →
Disagreements are NOT Conflicts
Listen to organizational psychologists, and some will sprout the idea that conflict can sometimes be good. I believe that any conflict or dispute is not something to be enjoyed or aspire to have. That there is a big difference between a disagreement and a conflict.Disagreements, to me, are essential, and we should have far more... Continue Reading →
Caution, Psychological Safety Hazards Ahead!
As you may know by now, Psychological Safety is the latest buzzword for organizations and teams, since everyone found out What Google Learned From Its Quest to Build the Perfect Team. Although these authors and many others do an excellent job describing WHAT Psychological Safety is, there is still no standard recipe for explaining HOW... Continue Reading →
Poor Decision-making and Bad Luck, the Only Causes for Startups Failing
How we make our choices and decisions in startups is going to determine if we fail or not (along with some luck)—this is the premise of this post. Would you agree that all of these factors below, for startups failing, are just the symptoms of poor “decision-making", and that we can safely say that the... Continue Reading →
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