D8Psych-Fitness-28 🙏 Citizens play a part in mental fitness at the top
Teaser
Day 8 of 28, Citizens play a part in mental fitness at the top: April 1961. Structural checks give good leaders cover to do the right thing.
TLDR
April 1961.
Kennedy approved the Bay of Pigs invasion despite his own doubts about the plan. His senior advisers largely backed the operation. No one in the room pushed back hard enough. There was no system to surface dissent. It became a textbook case of groupthink.
Afterward, Kennedy changed the way he made decisions. He created mechanisms for dissent. He invited outside voices into key discussions. He built structures that would challenge his own assumptions.
Citizens and staff both play a part in keeping leaders grounded. Structural checks give good leaders cover to do the right thing.
Context
We all run on the same human hardware. Let’s build the support and checks to match the pressure of the job.
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