Too Much Therapy at Work

As someone with psych experience, I can’t entirely disagree, but he seems to leave out what takes its place, he sort of self-humorously doesn’t even get through the whole piece without analyzing something through therapy speak (coping)

But I feel like there’s some missing model hear. Therapy is the wrong model for work, but we still need to work through difficult times, we need conflict resolution, we need authentic team building, and an understanding of how to have a retro discussion like the coo discussion he’s lamenting.

>> making people more fragile, more precious, more incapable of coping with the most basic expectations of disappointments or adversity on the job.

I think that is an unintended (hopefully) consequence of companies' reward metrics for employees and the associated achievement culture in the US.

If you are hiring high achievers and telling them to care about X, Y, and Z then don't act surprised when they notice and complain about blemishes on either X, Y, or Z.