You can’t unsee it
Once you see it, you can’t unsee it.
Ed sat down with Mick Brian for a sharp, unfiltered conversation about why humans are predictably irrational at work, and what that means for leaders, change agents, and organisations trying to actually get things done.
Drawing on 30 years inside large corporates, Ed makes a compelling case that safety - not purpose, not values - is the primary driver of human behaviour at work. Once you see it, you can't unsee it.
Safety as the master motivator: Why financial security drives more organisational behaviour than any engagement survey will tell you, and how VW Dieselgate and EY's ethics exam scandal prove it
Tribal dynamics over team dynamics: how tribes form, how leaders are expected to keep them safe, and why individuals sacrifice their ethics to preserve belonging
Why traditional change management is broken: the critical mistake of focusing on the change itself rather than the system around it, and why the profession has trained leaders badly for decades
Self-discovery over entertainment: Ed's three killer questions technique, the IKEA bias, and why asking is more powerful than telling
Cognitive surrender and AI: how AI risks becoming a tool for intellectual abdication, and how Ed's team deliberately reintroduces friction to drive genuine thinking
Leaders get the outcomes they deserve: why the signal most organisations are failing to see is that leaders' behaviours are producing exactly the results they're getting — and nobody is telling them
More options to Watch or Listen: the Waggle Room
