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In the final article in this series, I'm going to return to a quote I started with in the overview:

A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.

 ~John Shedd

Beyond the safety of th...

This is the fifth in series about psychological safety and teams.

Here is the overview:  Emphasizing Psychological Safety Likely Undermined Team Effectiveness.

In Part 2, I argue there is little to ...

This is the fourth in series about psychological safety and team effectiveness.

Here is the overview, where I outline this series and make the claim the over-rotation towards psychological safety for...

"For me, it’s a head-versus-heart thing. The heart loves “numbers go up,” “momentum,” and extrapolations from small sample sizes — Lamar Jackson will never win a Super Bowl. It always wants to bet o...

This is the second article in my series on how over emphasizing psychological safety on teams may have undermined team effectiveness.  You can find my introduction here. 

This post is about Google...

You might have heard about psychological safety.

You might have heard about it especially in the context of teams and team effectiveness. 

This familiarity might be because psychological safety seem...

All companies have leaders.

What is less obvious is that all companies also have a "leadership system." 

That system is either repeatably developing and producing quality leaders or it's leadership ...

This is the fourth article in my Leader as Teacher series.

Part 1 outlined 1) why it's important for leaders to teach (develop the next generation of leaders), 2) what they should teach (values, norm...

This is the third article in my Leader as Teacher series.

Part I outlined 1) why it's important for leaders to teach (helping the next generation of leaders learn), 2) what they should teach (values,...

This is the second article in my Leader as Teacher series.

Part I outlined 1) why its important for leaders to teach (helping the next generation of leaders learn), 2) what they should teach (values,...

Consider these two, somewhat challenging statements:

The leadership ranks in any organization are constantly churning with exits, promotions, and new hires joining. Every leader knows that a big part...

This is the second in a series of articles about the inner paradigms that shape how we...see, navigate, make sense of, and carve our success...in the world. 

If "what got you here, won't get you ther...