Catch Fire with Resilient Learning Teams: Leading for 21st Century
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Argues for a restart of leadership: replace blame with measurable practices that increase learning speed and team resilience. Presents three team motivators—shared purpose, team autonomy, co‑intelligence—and four resilience factors—collaborative connection, conflict resilience, inclusive collaboration, power dynamics. Cites Scientific American Oct 2022 on harms of dominant control, recommends tools like retrospectives, tiny experiments (story slicing, TDD), public learning, and the Etsy “three‑armed sweater” cultural response that rewards useful mistakes instead of assigning blame.
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chapters (16)
- 0:00Halt and Catch Fire leadership intro
- 1:04Rethinking leadership levels
- 3:12Blame and shame damage
- 6:08Leaders lack training
- 8:54Dominant leadership research
- 12:07Lead Without Blame model
- 14:38Three motivators for teams
- 20:06Four resilience factors
- 27:43Power dynamics and collaboration
- 31:38Learning from mistakes
- 33:22Courageous leadership steps
- 36:08Compassion in team learning
- 38:37Leading in uncertainty
- 41:34Pragmatism vs vision
- 42:58Motivating through learning
- 44:25Reflection and next steps
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