The Safety Levers
"A framework to move your subculture from the Anxiety Zone to the Learning Zone" - and provide a way for everyone on your team to contribute and experiment safely.
Another really good framework from Corey. Leading with vulnerability gives the people on your team permission to be vulnerable too.
“When leaders frame work as execution, they imply the answer is already known. When they frame it as learning, they acknowledge uncertainty is part of the work.
[…] When leaders project certainty, dissent feels risky. When leaders acknowledge fallibility, speaking up becomes contribution, not challenge.”
Modeling uncertainty, learning, and humility allows everyone to be in growth mode vs approaching their work with a fixed mindset. But it has to be done with intention: uncertainty that doesn’t also come with norms around experimentation, feedback, and accountability just feels like instability.
I’m still growing here myself: in my world, everything is a prototype that can be challenged, experimented with, and iterated on. But providing the clear, structured lanes for people to experiment is crucial — and that intentional structure can be one of the first things to go when things get busy or fraught. Structures and norms only matter if they guide us through every situation and if they’re for everyone.
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