Toxic company #1

I got a call from a friend I had been working with previously in a consulting company. The year is 2009. My friend was a project manager and wanted me to join this online gaming company with roots in offline gaming. At that point I was running my own betting service but without any profit […]

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The sect

Having introduced Psychological Safety as a cornerstone for companies, this company was trickier. Psychological Safety was removed from the original Agile transformation agenda for some reason, but I introduced it as a channel in MS Teams, where the discussion started. I helped HR with workshops on the topic, hoping they would be the messenger in […]

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Functional stupidity

Mats Alvesson is a Swedish professor at Lund University who has succeeded in adding a term to the Swedish Academy’s dictionary SAOL – Functional Stupidity. His definition is “the inability and/or unwillingness to use cognitive and reflective abilities in anything other than narrow and circumspect ways. It involves a lack of reflexivity, a disinclination to […]

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Impression management

Goffman’s (1959) Impression Management theory is one of the best-known theories of identity performance. Goffman said that individuals present themselves based on the perceived audience from scene to scene, and our identity presentations are designed and prepared behind these scenes. In short, you try hard to meet the audience’s expectations in order to melt in […]

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Passion och diskussion

Bryr du dig om ditt företag? Amerikanska studier säger att 80% av arbetarna i USA ”går till jobbet” endast. De är inte engagerade i sitt företag. 18% av dessa motarbetar aktivt all förändring. Inom idrotten är det vanligt med matchintervjuer där man som förlorande lag småler åt eländet med plattityder som att komma tillbaka nästa […]

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Managers – guilty of unsafety

I did quick research of the available leadership training on the internet, and after discussions with these training companies, I found that none of them has Psychological Safety on the agenda. Psychological Safety is implicitly covered in topics like feedback, participation, soft skills etc, but cannot be found anywhere in the training catalogues, or explicitly […]

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