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This is the Engineering Culture Podcast, from the people behind InfoQ.com and the QCon conferences.\n\nIn this episode recorded at QCon London 2019 Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, first spoke to Andrea Dobson on balancing risk and psychological safety and Katherine Kirk on escaping organisational hell.\n\nWhy listen to this podcast:\n\n\u2022\tWhere people work together we see behaviours that need coaching and that\u2019s where organisational psychologists provide value\n\u2022\tPsychological safety is necessary in order to be able to mitigate risks \n\u2022\tTeams need to build habits that promote safety \u2013 ask more questions rather than blaming, and look for learning opportunities\n\u2022\tThere is a lot to learn from Eastern philosophy about empowering people to solve their own problems rather than solving it for them\n\u2022\tOne of the main reasons that organisation \u201ctransformations\u201d don\u2019t stick is due to the ingrained habits that haven\u2019t been changed \n\u2022\tFrequently the issue is that the effort involved in changing habits wasn\u2019t taken into account when the transition plan was established\n\u2022\tThere are some common patterns which inhibit organisational change, these include: aversion, desire, restlessness (or busyness), dullness (exhaustion) and oscillating doubt\n\nMore on this: Quick scan our curated show notes on InfoQ https://bit.ly/2Kg2NTX\nYou can also subscribe to the InfoQ newsletter to receive weekly updates on the hottest topics from professional software development. bit.ly/24x3IVq\n\nSubscribe: www.youtube.com/infoq\nLike InfoQ on Facebook: bit.ly/2jmlyG8\nFollow on Twitter: twitter.com/InfoQ\nFollow on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/infoq\nCheck the landing page on InfoQ: https://bit.ly/2Kg2NTX