A BRITER visual reflection · Sensemaking
Sometimes it starts with a question.
Follow one ordinary moment through the meanings a room can make of it. Move through the nine cards at your pace, then carry the leadership question into your next conversation.
01 · BehaviorSometimes It Starts With a Question
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The leadership question
What are we responding to?
Are we responding to what someone actually did—or to the story we have developed about why they did it?
Talk with people, not only about people.
Download all nine cards as a PDF ↓What prompted this question
Research on excellencism and perfectionism prompted this reflection; it did not study workplace reputation, labeling, bias, or organizational conflict. The sequence above is a question the research raised, not a finding it reported.
Andrade, G., Pétrin-Pomerleau, P., & Gaudreau, P. (2025). The basic psychological needs in excellencism and perfectionism: A dual perspective with the need-as-motives and the need-as-nutriments frameworks. Personality and Individual Differences, 245, 113286. DOI