You don’t Need to be a Hero to be a Safety Leader “When a meeting between two people truly takes place, when there is just you and me and we are interacting in a very real and honest way, dropping agendas and stepping into a wide space where the air is fresh and competitors become brothers and … [Read more...] about You don’t Need to be a Hero to be a Safety Leader
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Ritual Performance and Risk
Ritual Performance and Risk One of the by-products and effects of safety bureaucracy is the reduction of personal agency. That is, people are controlled by process, systems and rituals rather than by relationship, interactive engagement and human mediation. The process of displacement then makes … [Read more...] about Ritual Performance and Risk
Foundations of Perception and Imagination in Risk
In many ways humans see what they want to see, there is no such thing as objective perception. The modern study of the Psychology of Perception really started with the work of Bruner, Postman and Goodman in the 1940s (https://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Bruner/Cards/). Bruner and Postman showed through … [Read more...] about Foundations of Perception and Imagination in Risk
The Psychology of Leadership in Risk
The Psychology of Leadership in Risk The second Unit in the Post Graduate Program on the Psychology of Risk (humandymensions.com/post-graduate-studies) at ACU is on The Social Psychology of Leading in Risk. The only video session that will be made public on this Vimeo site is the presentation and … [Read more...] about The Psychology of Leadership in Risk
That’s Not a Knife, That’s a Knife
That’s Not a Knife, That’s a Knife Dr Rob Long Sometimes when I get a chance to catch up with my brother Graham I feel like the hoodlum on the streets of New York in Crocodile Dundee. Not that we compete as brothers but when it comes to risk I have a lot to learn from Graham. It’s not until you … [Read more...] about That’s Not a Knife, That’s a Knife
Leadership and Vision in Risk
Leadership and Vision in Risk The focus of Australian Story on Monday 20 August 2018 (http://www.abc.net.au/austory/leading-the-way/10129182) is the extraordinary work of the Wayside Chapel, Kings Cross Sydney. The story is about leadership, vision and how to humanize people. At the Wayside Chapel … [Read more...] about Leadership and Vision in Risk