We're Making Workplace History

With the international launch of my book finally here this week l am genuinely excited to hear everyone’s thoughts on it. (And if you purchase it and like it please-please-*please* set up a reminder leave an Amazon review, we won't change the world and better teams' lives if we keep it to ourselves:)

My main trepidations “Have readers taken to heart that Psychological Safety is where it’s at and it can be improved?”/“Have they connected to the concept of HumanDebt enough to want to prioritise the people work?”/ “Have both sides (Business and IT or HR and DevOps) seen how the divide between them is hurting our collective chances for success when it comes to creating a true Agile mindset for happy and high performing teams?”

Much has changed since l wrote it at the beginning of the first lockdown and much has yet to change. These big themes stand though and thankfully stand a lot more proudly today.

The above is what to do at an enterprise level and one of the few examples of discussing it from that perspective in the book which is instead breaking it down and focusing on the useful and practical in lieu of the organisational navel-gazing with chapters on “Putting a number on Psychological Safety”; chapters on measuring; chapters with examples, anecdotes and to-do’s lists and even one dedicated to dissuading anyone from focusing on the organisational point of view.

This is because the book, while it is not an exact practical guide because it needs to first ensure we speak the same language and agree on the same big epics, aims to veer a lot closer to the “doing” than the “sterile talking”.