Why Expertise Is Becoming Cheap—and What Leaders Must Build Instead
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David Rice discusses with Chris Deaver how fear can undermine high-performing workplaces.
If your organization looks successful on paper but feels strangely tense in practice, there’s a good chance fear—not excellence—is quietly running the show. In this episode, David Rice talks with Brave Together author Chris Deaver about how fear disguises itself in high-performing workplaces: polished presentations, perfect metrics, and meetings where nobody laughs—and nobody challenges anything either. Their conversation explores what happens when organizations reward superhero behavior, vis...
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