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Psychological Security in the Workplace - "The Fearless Organisation" by Amy C. Edmondson

I am reading the book "The Fearless Organisation" by Amy C. Edmondson, of Harvard Business School. A lot of her points really hit home for me.  I have been privileged  to  inhabit several work environments that have very open to feedback and willing to hear divergent opinions and ideas.  We enjoyed healthy disagreement,  that helped us make positive changes at work.   As I have progressed through my career, I've been rewarded with increasing responsibility and with it a broader influence, and the opportunity to experience different environments with differing degrees of psychological safety.   In the unhealthy environments, I have observed pockets of subversive behaviour, dishonesty,  fear and a general malaise in the team atmosphere.  Much of this is predicated on those who turn small mistakes into catastrophe by spreading exaggerated and false statements about potential risks, blaming and shaming or creating cliques.  There are also those who lead wit