HeyJaredThe Shepard Scale
Applied counterintelligence doctrine for leaders in contested and compromised environments
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Cornell: The Safety Question We’re Not Supposed to Ask (opens the original)
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When Purpose Blinds Us (opens the original)
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, if you’ve never heard of it, is one of the more interesting Substacks available, especially if you’re a systems thinker. I was thrilled to have its author, , come on the show. Our conversation starts with a deceptively simple question: when does a sense of purpose make us better at what we do, and when does the mission start interfering with the job?From there, we get into mission capture, status, moral identity, and our strange cultural insistence that ordinary competence isn’t enough anymore
The Structural Trust Vetting Workbook (Downloadable Tool) (opens the original)
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Who Pays the Cost of Our Compassion? (opens the original)
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I’ve written this week about how compassion and even convictions can turn into identity. We’ve been seeing it a lot lately; between people claiming neurodivergence, the Lindsay Clancy case, and now the Nikole Hannah-Jones brouhaha over education, it seems that compassion-turned-identity is everywhere. Where does it come from? Where did w
When the Mission Becomes More Important Than Reality (opens the original)
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Welcome to The Shepard Scale, where we examine power, trust, leadership, group dynamics, and human behavior through the lens of orientation to reality. Politics, history, culture, business, and current events are all used as examples to illustrate principles that you can use.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!S0LI!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdf4b920c-01da-4f
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