CIRCLE WITH A DOT

The Vasa sank in 1628 because the people who knew it would sink didn't feel able to say so to the people who could have done something about it.

We wrote up the full case study — Vasa Syndrome, authority gradients, and what the sister ship tells us about organisational learning.

The Vasa

The Vasa Disaster A few years ago, I was working for a client in Stockholm and in some free time, I visited the wreck of the Vasa, the world’s best-preserved 17th-century ship. She’s housed in a museum built specifically around […]

Psych Safety (psychsafety.com)

Noting the benefits of psychological safety is not the same as making those benefits the justification for it. We don't ask whether freedom of speech delivers ROI. Psychological safety belongs in the same category- as a fundamental condition of dignity at work.
https://psychsafety.com/the-utility-of-psychological-safety/