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At some point we have to reach the conclusion that most of the time products fail because they are of lower quality compared to their competitors. The only way
by ohduran 5y ago
At some point we have to reach the conclusion that most of the time products fail because they are of lower quality compared to their competitors.
The only way I can see psychological safety effecting the eventual outcome of Google+ is someone who, being psychologically safe, would have said right at the beginning, "this is stupid, don't even try it".
- TameAntelope 5y agoProducts that could have succeeded instead failed because of a lack of PsySafety on the team. Nobody's suggesting this is a panacea that'll make your unviable idea suddenly viable, the article is about how options for working that could lead to success get cut off when PsySafety isn't present on the team.
- kwertyoowiyop 5y agoOr said “you do realize this isn’t good, right?” at any point later on. A really smart exec could have noticed a preponderance of negative internal feedback (or solicited feedback if none was forthcoming) and fought to change course. That would have worked out a lot better for the company.
- ineedasername 5y agoYou seem to contradict yourself by diminishing the impact of psychological safety at the same time that you give an excellent example of how it might have helped a project.
- trilinearnz 5y agoAnother good example is the events leading up to the Challenger disaster (from the notion of 'Groupthink', which is related to Psychological Safety): https://sites.psu.edu/aspsy/2020/10/07/how-groupthink-played-a-role-in-the-challenger-disaster/ https://sites.psu.edu/aspsy/2020/10/07/how-groupthink-played...