Thinking for Yourself

Think­ing for your­self means think­ing inde­pen­dent­ly — being con­scious of old pat­terns and bias­es and work­ing to over­come them as you make your own judg­ments. This process can be about iden­ti­ty, work, rela­tion­ships — any­thing at all. And it’s impor­tant to con­sid­er because when our past con­di­tion­ing is in charge it does much of our… Con­tin­ue read­ing Think­ing for Yourself

Three Voices: Truth, Kindness and Destiny

Self-Truth: This voice pro­vides ongo­ing assess­ment of the real­i­ties we must face — both the exter­nal and the inter­nal ones. When impaired or not present, this voice can lead to self-decep­­tion and dis­tor­tion. If there is “too much” self-truth we may be immo­bi­lized by its crit­i­cal judg­ments that we mis­in­ter­pret as truth. If “too lit­tle”… Con­tin­ue read­ing Three Voic­es: Truth, Kind­ness and Destiny

The Shadow of Psychological Safety

It is prob­a­bly inevitable that when a con­cept achieves broad accep­tance that there will be debate over what it is and what it is not. Sur­vey­ing LinkedIn and oth­er social media sources, it’s appar­ent that the con­cept of psy­cho­log­i­cal safe­ty devel­oped by Har­vard Busi­ness School’s Amy Edmond­son has both achieved this lev­el of accep­tance and… Con­tin­ue read­ing The Shad­ow of Psy­cho­log­i­cal Safety