Wicked Movie: Stop the Splitting
In this brief walking tip, Susan from The Academies uses the popular musical film Wicked as a lens to explain the psychological concept of splitting—an all‑or‑nothing way of thinking that simplifies complex, paradoxical situations into binary categories of good or bad. She points out how the movie’s clear division between the Good Witch and the Bad Witch mirrors workplace tendencies to label people, leaders, or projects as either wholly positive or wholly negative, with no middle ground. By highlighting examples such as “perfect leader vs. toxic leader” or “savior project vs. debacle,” Susan encourages listeners to become aware when they or others are operating in this binary mindset and to pause, question the underlying difficulty, and consider the nuanced reality that lies between the extremes.
