Susanna Romantsova

Cassandra syndrome killed companies like Blackberry, Kodak, Nokia and it’s a risk for yours too. In Greek myth, Cassandra could see the future and no one ever believed her. Every organization I work with has a Cassandra. Usually more than one. - The engineer who flagged the system risk eighteen m...

I left IKEA 4 years ago. Since then I’ve worked with 48 international corporations. 70% of them are my long-term clients. I’ve seen these companies through restructurings, transformations, cultural pivots. Believe me, I have zero illusions about perfect companies (except IKEA ofc 😊). And yet not...

HR, paradoxically, has the lowest level of psychological safety among all functions. This is what I discovered in a recent project where I diagnosed psychological safety across the organization. There were differences between teams, but the trend at the function level remained vivid and consistent...

There is always one person in my leadership training who thinks (or even says out loud) that psychological safety is a waste of their afternoon. They come to meet me and then roll their eyes and show with their whole body that they did me a favor by coming. That sounds like a nightmare for a tra...

I realized that most goals don’t work because they are stones, not wings. Stone goals are thrown at you and you have to carry them, feeling the weight of expectations and consequences. Wing goals carry you. They help you rise above the horizon, gain the perspective, and travel fast and far. - S...