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Project Aristotle: What You Need to Know About Psychological Safety
Google's Project Aristotle linked psychological safety to team performance but never taught leaders how to build it — this episode fills the gap.
When Google set out in 2012 to discover what makes a high-performing team, researchers expected demographics, characteristics, or personality traits. What they found instead: the interactions of a team determine its effectiveness. Composition mattered very little.
Project Aristotle made the critical link between psychological safety and performance — but the research did little to teach leaders how to foster it. Tim and Junior fill that gap: the behavioral mechanism behind psychological safety, the L.I.V.E. model for teams, and where The 4 Stages fit in.
