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№ 14 | Psychological Safety Gaps, Feedback Using Playing Cards, Strategy and Clarity, ORSC and Agile, and… Tools for Leaving Twitter

Psychological Safety Gaps

I love the framing of these as psychological safety gaps (from trainer, coach, & facilitator John Schrag).

I’ve recently become fascinated with the phenomenon of “safety gaps” – teams where psychological safety is taken very seriously; where the team leaders seem to be trying to do the right things, but are failing to achieve the desired results.

Eight observations. Nothing too surprising. But, I love that we're moving into the realm of observing and labeling blockers (and enablers) of psychological safety—kind of a proto-framework or game, yes?

A feedback framework based on playing cards!

This super simple (and memorable!) framework from LifeLabs helps level up feedback, using…Diamonds, Clubs, Hearts, and Spades!

Strategy and clarity

John Cutler offers a response to this thought-provoking statement:

Why do most companies [lack] a clear and coherent product strategy? My take: Because in most companies, there is a lot of (hidden) value in the lack of clarity and coherence.

Syntax destruction. Clarity vs Certainty. This short post on “Why Most Strategies Lack Clarity” left with me with some things to think about… There's a lot of tension between providing a clear, bold vision, and allowing for teams and orgs to learn, shape, and alter that vision along the way.

ORSC and agile

Notes from an agile coach who recently completed training for Organization and Relationship Systems coaching. The ‘team alliance’ exercise (below) is one of many methods taught to bring an organization and systems focus to teams.

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Leaving twitter?

Not sure who needs this, but these tools/services may come in handy:

ListFollowers.com — Get a list of your follows, followers, or mutuals, and more!
Looking for twitter friends on Mastodon? Here are two tools I've come across: Twitodon and Fedifinder

And finally…

Mastodon makes sense now, thanks to this clear and thorough explanation: “A futuristic Mastodon introduction for 2021” (H/T Erika Hall)

№ 120 | We Wunt Be Druv, If You Were a Ghost, What Would You Haunt?, Brick Starter, Can Trivia Save Us?, The Housing Game, 4 Forms of Hope, and Reality Strikes Back: A Cartoon Guide to Complexity

Welcome to another edition of Thinking Things, your regular roundup of ‘playful things to think with’ and things to think about! This weekend, I’m back with not 1, not 2, but 3—count ‘em THREE—card decks. We Wunt Be Druv At the most recent Cardstock meetup, John V

№ 119 | Scenarios From the Fable 5 Ban, Type Simulation, Player Agency, Echo Chamber Simulation, A1 Collision Density, Brains on Games, Conversational Leadership Essentials, the HIVE Deck, and a Vincent van Gogh Makeover

Welcome to another edition of Thinking Things, your regular roundup of ‘playful things to think with’ and things to think about! Let’s jump into it… Scenarios from the Fable 5 ban You might have heard that the US government banned Anthropic’s latest LLM model? This isn’t about

№ 118 | Working in Space, BriteBox Idea Generation, Epos Daimon, American Dictator? The Game, Cas Holman and ‘Anji Play’, A Web Typography Learning Game, and The Stratification of Trust

Welcome to another edition of Thinking Things, your regular roundup of 'playful things to think with’ and things to think about! 🤦I made a mistake. In the last issue, I mentioned a three-line poem from Mary Oliver. As it turns out, this is misinformation. Despite a quick bit

№ 117 | A Special “Two-fer” Edition: Museum Activities, Attention, Technology & Childhood Education, Writing Together, Two Critiques of Org Change, and More Great Conversation Starters

A special “two-fer” edition, featuring things to think with or think about—that happen to pair nicely with each other! Context: While collecting the various things that make it into this newsletter, I sometimes come across posts, frameworks, etc. that feel better to share together, as a pair (or