Great Leaders Make People Feel Safe

Source: What Google Learned From Its Quest to Build the Perfect Team – The New York Times

I’ve always been obsessed with with Google knows about hiring and management that I don’t.

And it looks like we now have a good answer.

TL;DR: If you want to have a high-performing team, you need to have a team that feels empathically connected with itself, and where everyone feels emotionally safe with sharing their insecurities and weaknesses with each other.

Unbelievable.

Next steps

I wrote a leadership primer a while back, and I’m going to be updating it with what I learned from this.

Ultimately, as per my Algorithmic Learning post, I need to continually update my methodology for understanding how to be the best leader one can be.