Claude Silver argues that workplaces ask employees to behave like robots, hiding behind masks instead of showing up as themselves. Leaders need to model vulnerability first, removing their own masks so team members feel safe enough to do the same.
Somewhere, somehow, we forgot to be human at work. Not quite sure how, not quite sure if it was back in the industrial age. I have my speculations. But in not being human at work, then we're asking everyone to be robots, and we're pretty much asking everyone to be very similar. And in doing that, then there's no there there. I'm just looking at, again, John and John and John and John and John, where I want people to come into work and feel like they can take off their mask. How can they take off mask, they have to be in a culture where the other, where leaders do take off their mask also.
