Summary of Timothy R. Clark's The 4 Stages of Psychological Safety

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Get the Summary of Timothy R. Clark's The 4 Stages of Psychological Safety in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Perhaps the leader's most challenging task is to increase intellectual friction while decreasing social friction. When this doesn't happen and it becomes emotionally expensive to say what you truly think and feel, that lack of psychological safety triggers the self-censoring instinct, shuts down learning, and blocks collaboration and creativity. Timothy R. Clark, a former CEO, Oxford-trained social scientist, and organizational consultant, provides a research-based framework to help leaders transform their organizations into sanctuaries of inclusion and incubators of innovation.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Nov 27, 2021
• ISBN: 9781638158646

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#1

Inclusion is the first step towards achieving psychological safety, and it is the purest form of acceptance. It simply implies that we should be accepting of others regardless of their background.

#2

We should create an environment of inclusion before we make judgments about others. We must first treat each other with respect, and only then may we begin to make judgments about one another.

#3

We have become very good at isolating certain groups, and excluding them from