Food for Thought
Notes on leadership, change and collaboration.
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What If Psychological Safety Was a Card Game? We turned Amy Edmondson's research into a card game of 40 micro-interventions — five suits, five anti-heroes, and a progression from small personal sparks to team-wide culture. A walk through the 7s, 8s, 9s, 10s, and Jacks. Read more → -
How Teams Really Get Better: Psychological Safety + High Standards Psychological safety isn't softness, and it isn't the opposite of performance. Two levers — safety and standards — and why only high/high produces real team learning. (After Edmondson & Kerrissey, HBR 2025.) Read more → - The Goliath Illusion: When Strength Becomes Weakness A mentor's early lesson on how leaders hire and fire — and why the greatest weakness of the strong is the illusion of their own limitless strength. Read more →
- Leadership in the Age of Fragmentation: 5 Provocative Theses If you want to lead today, you have to understand the mechanics of the digital attention economy—otherwise, you’ll become irrelevant. Visibility matters more than ever, but it’s not enough on its… Read more →
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On Trust and Critical Thinking A retired professor's worry about fear-mongering and its fascist undertones — and why critical thinking and trust are our shield against manipulation in the age of AI. Read more → -
Emma's Change Story and the TRIP Formula An HR Director wants Emma pushed out of her comfort zone — but fear-driven change has limits. PUETTGEN's TRIP formula (Transformation = Resources x Intentions x Progress) takes an empowering route. Read more → -
New way of leading: how to promote empowerment Do you also perceive the recent power shift? Away from the hierarchical manager as a bottleneck, towards a leader who empowers employees. Empowered employees are the new leaders. Remote leadership… Read more → -
A remote change workshop? Is that even possible? Yes, it is! After publishing our articles about remote workshops, we received some questions about which specific workshops are possible online. This article is a guide on how to practically run a… Read more →