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Brave Spaces The seeds of what I now call Brave Spaces were planted at Harvard Kennedy School in 2012. Attending an Adaptive Leadership programme there was an incredibly valuable and also a raw experience - both intellectually and experientially. Systemic patterns in...
Psychological Safety & Adaptive Leadership I've been reflecting on why Psychological Safety and Adaptive Leadership go hand-in-hand in my work, and why this matters now more than ever. On the surface, they seem like odd bed-fellows. One is about creating 'safe'...
What is Psychological Safety? Amy Edmonson starts her book ‘The Fearless Organisation’ with the quote by Edmund Burke: “No passion so effectively robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear” (1756). A ‘fearless’ or psychologically safe organisation...
Eight years ago, I spent about ten days in the Harvard Kennedy School of Government learning about the difference between ‘adaptive’ (complex) and ‘technical’ challenges. Eight years on, Covid-19 is playing out as the most significant adaptive challenge in my...