Basic Social Skills Guide (2012)

Re:Basic Social Skills Guide (2012) by notJim on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @02:42PM (#21587644)

That's a great point, and one I've seen in action. I haven't seen the particular strategy you describe, but I've seen others. People can absolutely weaponize efforts to create psychological safety. IMO psychological safety is a necessary, but not sufficient condition for being able to disagree about ideas and come to better ones.

I think great leadership is when someone notices that happening and shuts it down.

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Re:Basic Social Skills Guide (2012) by username90 on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @03:23PM (#21588082)

Goodhart's law applies to psychological safety. It is a good measure of a culture until people starts to actively work towards psychological safety. I feel like most of these tips and tricks people use to improve their social skills are just making it harder to rat out the toxic people, it doesn't actually make people less toxic.

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