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If we’re insecure, we make fun of others. If we’re comfortable being wrong, we’re not afraid to poke fun at ourselves.
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The ideal members of a challenge network are disagreeable, because they’re fearless about questioning the way things have always been done and holding us accountable for thinking again.
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…mindsets aren’t enough to transform a culture. Although psychological safety erases the fear of challenging authority, it doesn’t necessarily motivate us to question authority in the first place.
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Fear may breed anger, and anger, fear. Emotions may quickly bring a negotiation to an impasse or an end.
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We are so afraid of making a mistake that we have lost the courage to do anything spectacularly right.
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When we are unable to see or hear the people we are hurting, fears of getting in trouble, losing our jobs, missing the numbers or disturbing our place in the pecking order become primary drivers of decisions.
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…when empathy is lacking, aggression, fear and other destructive feelings and actions dominate.
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Politics also present a constant threat – the fear that others are trying to keep us down so that they may advance their own careers.
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When we are unable to see or hear the people we are hurting, fears of getting in trouble, losing our jobs, missing the numbers or disturbing our place in the pecking order become primary drivers of decisions.
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When fear is in the air, your mantra should be: Simple, Concrete, Credible, and Repetitive.
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