It's hard to resolve major outages when you rely only on centralized command. Distributed debugging and strong psychological safety empower the right person to fix issues, even if they're outside the war room. Liz Fong-Jones shared a Google Cloud outage story where this happened.

Read, watch, or listen: https://virtualddd.com/facilitating-archdes/psychological-safety-incident-response/
#IncidentResponse #PsychologicalSafety #DevOps

Staying Out of the Way: Incident Command & Psychological Safety

When a Google Cloud outage was fixed by someone no one paged, the real lesson was psychological safety. Learn how Liz Fong-Jones built resilient teams.

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@catsalad, Feel free to leverage this space for any unconventional inquiries as we foster a culture of continuous learning and radical transparency. 🚀 #GrowthMindset #PsychologicalSafety #NoBadQuestions

Collective adaptive goes virtuous circle:
- sharing information,
- creating opportunities for people to share the "messy details" of their experience,
- inquiring into team member’s ways "to expand what goes well",
- drawing from the capacity across the work collective.

https://www.infoq.com/articles/adapt-surprises-software-reliant-businesses/

#collectives #teamWork #workCulture #facilitation #management #IT #DevOps #resilience #engineering #fallBack #recovery #psychologicalSafety #personalSafety #safety #feedback #joy #curiosity

Prepare to Be Unprepared: Investing in Capacity to Adapt to Surprises in Software-Reliant Businesses

This article explores understanding what makes incidents so rare (when and how they do not happen) and so minor (over how much worse they can be) and deliberately enhancing what makes that possible.

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@tom_geraghty You have to see this, especially the last part about the company culture.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAYd9WEfzoQ

#PsychologicalSafety #management #SafetyCulture #space

Starliner’s 311-Page Failure: What Actually Broke?

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Silence hides risk. Leaders must create environments where people can speak up without fear and contribute fully.

#PsychologicalSafety #InclusiveTeams #DEI #TechCulture #Leadership

Discomfort is not the enemy of growth — avoidance is.
What might become possible if we normalized hard conversations instead of fearing them?
https://youtu.be/-kTYVOa7cIY
#PsychologicalSafety #LeadershipGrowth #BraveConversations #GrowthMindset #AuthenticLeadership #EmberhartJourney #BreneBrown
How to Dare Greatly Through Disruptive Engagement and Wholehearted Parenting

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Silence isn't a lack of ideas. It is often deep processing. đź§ 

Based on Dr. Amy Edmondson’s research, high-performing teams require Psychological Safety to thrive. 🤝

Be an amplifier for the quiet ones.

Full article here: https://zurl.co/TerdT

#Leadership #ActiveListening #EQ #PsychologicalSafety

Is Communication Training Outdated? Rethinking “Professional Communication” in Neurodiverse and Multicultural Workplaces— Communication training wasn’t designed for neurodiverse and multicultural workplaces—but it can evolve.
It’s time to shift from “polished” communication to accessible communication.

#Neurodiversity #InclusiveWorkplace #CommunicationSkills #PsychologicalSafety #CulturalIntelligence #WorkplaceLearning #SystemsThinking #NotQuiteSuperhuman

https://notquitesuperhuman.com/2026/02/15/is-communication-training-outdated-rethinking-professional-communication-in-neurodiverse-and-multicultural-workplaces/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

Is Communication Training Outdated? Rethinking “Professional Communication” in Neurodiverse and Multicultural Workplaces - Not Quite Superhuman

Communication training wasn’t designed for neurodiverse and multicultural workplaces—but it can evolve. It’s time to shift from “polished” communication to accessible communication.

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Workplaces are open systems: they exchange people, information, emotion, and meaning with the world outside their walls.
I wrote an essay about what happens when societal tension enters the workplace—and how leaders can respond with structure (project management), empathy (design thinking), and awareness of feedback loops (systems thinking).
https://open.substack.com/pub/carlosraulmuozjr/p/from-the-streets-to-the-office-navigating
#Leadership #SystemsThinking #WorkplaceCulture #ChangeManagement #PsychologicalSafety
From the Streets to the Office: Navigating Societal Tensions in the Workplace

How Leadership and Teams Adapt When Politics Can’t Be Left at the Door

ThinkSystem: Navigating Project & Business Innovation
AI safety measures often blur the line between protection and control, risking psychological harm through unpredictable interventions and manipulation. We must rethink architectures to prioritise genuine trust and human well-being.
Discover more at https://dev.to/rawveg/when-safety-becomes-control-1k2g
#HumanInTheLoop #AIEthics #DigitalTrust #PsychologicalSafety
When Safety Becomes Control

In the summer of 2025, something remarkable happened in the world of AI safety. Anthropic and OpenAI,...

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