Tag: Psychological Safety
Ryan McCormack’s Operational Excellence Mixtape: February 24th, 2023
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Learning from Mistakes in the Operating Room: Why Small Errors Lead...
TL;DR: Wrong-site surgery rarely happens because of one person--it happens when small errors, near misses, and unsafe cultures are ignored instead of learned from.
This...
What Do We Mean by Vulnerable Acts in the Context of...
TL;DR: Vulnerable acts at work include everyday behaviors like asking questions, admitting mistakes, and challenging ideas--and leaders build psychological safety by modeling and rewarding...
Psychological Safety at Work: Why Rewarding Vulnerability Improves Outcomes
Psychological Safety Exists on a Spectrum
How is Your Individual Level of Psychological Safety in your workplace, healthcare, or otherwise?
Psychological safety is not a yes-or-no...
Lucy and the Chocolate Factory–Reimagined With Sushi: A Lean Lesson from...
Many Lean practitioners know the famous Lucy and the Chocolate Factory Lean example from I Love Lucy--a scene that's been used for decades to...
Ryan McCormack’s Operational Excellence Mixtape: Best of 2022
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How Would an AI Bot Explain Lean Manufacturing to a 5-Year-Old?
I saw a story on the NBC Nightly News last night about the ChatGPT / OpenAI tool, and they used examples of asking the...
Creating a Culture of Transparency: Lessons from GE CEO Larry Culp...
Making it Safe for Bad News to Flow to the CEO (or Other Leaders)
Following up on my blog post about GE CEO Larry Culp's...
At Toyota: Mistakes are OK, as Long as We Learn; Culture...
The book that I'm writing on learning from mistakes is not an academic research-driven project. My "field research" mainly consists of the 200 podcast...
Jim Benson on The Collaboration Equation, His New Book
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My guest for Episode #463 of the Lean Blog Interviews Podcast is Jim Benson, the CEO...
Psychological Safety as a Pre-Condition for Lean and Continuous Improvement
"Simply put, we cannot get to zero harm without psychological safety."
I wrote that as part of this page on the Value Capture website:
Psychological Safety and Its...
The 4 Stages of Psychological Safety: Podcast Episodes and Lean Leadership...
Psychological safety is often discussed as a single concept, but in practice it develops in stages. The 4 Stages of Psychological Safety framework--popularized by...














