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!
From Ripple to Review: A Fairer Path for Resolving Team Disturbances
In every workplace team, tensions surface, especially during difficult conversations. Sometimes they’re loud, sometimes just a ripple, a moment of unease, an offhand comment, a subtle disruption. Left unaddressed, even small disturbances can escalate. That’s why we built SpatzAI around a clear steped path to handle micro-conflict before it spirals.
SpatzAI: More paperwork, More Headaches, More Complications…
I think some people could look at SpatzAI and think "more paperwork, more headaches, more, more, more….". That might be their first reaction when they hear about SpatzAI in action: “More process? More friction?” But I believe that’s a surface-level take—one that misses the point entirely.
A Simple Micro-conflict Resolution Process
When someone in a workplace team feels they’re being treated unfairly by a teammate or manager… we recommend SpatzAI — a system that empowers affected team members to address the issue directly and in real-time, while offering the protection of a transparent team review process, if the final conflict remains unresolved.
From Cockpit to Conference Room: Why Misbehavior, Not Just Human Error, Crashes Systems
In 1977, the world witnessed the deadliest aviation disaster in history: Two jumbo jets collided on the runway in Tenerife, killing 583 people. But the crash wasn’t due to mechanical failure. It was a behavioral failure. The KLM captain was confident — too confident. His crew noticed subtle signs that something was wrong. But no one stopped him. Why? Because in that cockpit, challenging authority felt more dangerous than crashing the plane.
Convergence vs Conversion: A Subtle but Powerful Distinction
It would be remiss of us to explore the convergence of people's thinking vs conversion of them without first leading with what we favor: convergence — which, in our view, is best described as detailed, non-imposing, and inquisitive behavior....
Fairness Intelligence FQ
There has been a lot of talk about emotional intelligence, EQ as opposed to IQ lately. However, I have been talking about OQ—or objective intelligence—recently, but when all is said and done, they all seem to point to one thing: fairness intelligence, or FQ.
SpatzAI, A Force for Fairness, Where Judge Judy Meets The Office
Imagine having Judge Judy step in whenever you have a minor conflict at work. One moment you’re quietly stewing over a colleague’s behavior, and the next, a neutral, fair intervention helps resolve it, quickly and equitably. That’s exactly what SpatzAI is designed to do.
Fair Play is Child’s Play the SpatzAI Way
Fair Play is Child's Play the SpatzAI Way Imagine teaching a two-year-old to use a caution gesture—hand raised, just like the Buddha—and say, “Thận trọng!” (Vietnamese for caution) when they feel someone is out of line. It sounds unlikely, right? Yet, after a few hours of modeling the gesture and phrase, a toddler not only... Continue Reading →
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