The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse of Workplace Relationships
summary
Identifies four destructive communication patterns that undermine team atmosphere, productivity, and cause conflicts in tech teams (applied to sprint planning, daily standups, reviews, retrospectives) and presents concrete antidotes and strategies—including psychological safety, blameless culture, psychologically safe meetings, and workshops—to neutralize them and improve individual contributions to team success.
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chapters (16)
- 0:00Intro
- 2:25Negative interaction patterns
- 3:49Sprint Planning
- 5:20Daily Scrum ("standups")
- 7:35Review ("demo")
- 10:05Retrospectives
- 11:37What would you do?
- 14:09"The Gottman Four Horsemen"
- 19:53Path to change
- 22:51Antidotes
- 32:05Psychological Safety: Project Aristotle by Google
- 35:15Blameless Culture
- 35:48Psychologically Safe Meetings
- 37:19Workshops
- 37:54Relationships matter
- 38:11Outro
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