I have a fun experiment for you! 

Stop reading this for a moment, take a pen and a piece of paper and write down your team’s purpose, its raison d’être.

Though many companies and managers go to extraordinary lengths to boost their teams’ performance, only a fraction seem to accept this simple fact: high performing teams require psychological safety. 

If there's a secret sauce to a high-performance culture, one of its key ingredients is something you normally don't associate with the workplace. 

Have you ever walked in a slightly dodgy neighbourhood?

With suspicious transactions in the shadows, littered sidewalks, a few abandoned buildings, walls covered in graffiti and gaping, broken windows? 

Whitney Johnson is a best-selling author and one of the world's most influential management thinkers by Thinkers50. She’s an expert in disruptive innovation and personal disruption, and in this interview we talk about how we can tap into our innate human need to grow and develop so that we can drive learning, engagement and innovation in our teams.