feeling safe in creative work & business — kening zhu

Feeling safe allows children to work at the top of their emerging executive functions. (Think of those things successful executives need to do to run businesses: stay focused, meet challenges, have self-discipline, and flexibly adapt to changing circumstances.)

You want your people to feel that working with you is a place of reward, not risk. And you also realize that you want to feel like you’re safe so that you can stay at your smartest, rather than in fight-or-flight mode.