Dr. Anna Kallschmidt

Thank you for sharing!

I said this months ago in a video and nobody seemed to get it. It’s such a problem

Finished my diss in covid, finishing my book while living in DC through *this*. Rooting for you!

Hair plugs gonna fly lol

I was literally writing my book chapter on the unwritten rule of being assertive but not “too aggressive” at work when my phone exploded with the billionaire tantrum. Literally anything else would’ve been “more professional.”
#elonmusk #trump #realhousewivesofdc

@clairewillett honestly the best marketing scheme in history is men successfully getting away with calling women the "more emotional" gender for like, EONS, because they've successfully rebranded anger as Not An Emotion 6:00 PM • Aug 12, 2020

once again I must tap my own sign

It’s very likely AI wrote it. It “hallucinates” false citations all the time

We told one generation to abandon manual skills for knowledge work. Now we're surprised when they lack empathy for those whose knowledge work is being automated. This isn't just about jobs—it's about the broken promises of social advancement.
#bluecollar #whitecollar #ai #americandream

And in doing so, I want to support businesses that remember they sell to humans who have different cultural contexts in their langauge 👀
#duolino #secondlangauge #travel

Seeking recommendations for second language apps! I used to use Duolingo, but I've heard no good things since they've replaced people with AI. I will be traveling in parts of Europe, Africa, and possibly Asia in the fall. I want to do my best to navigate in a culturally respectful way.

🎧 Are You Playing by the Wrong Rulebook? Career Advice They Never Taught You
👉https://player.captivate.fm/episode/1681779f-9018-41d2-9dfa-bcdcf70f6108
#CareerEquity #DEI #WorkplaceBias #IOPsych #UnCeilingYou

If you've ever felt like you're doing everything right and still hitting a ceiling—this one's for you.

We talked about:

🔹 Why direct vs. indirect communication creates hidden barriers
🔹 How professionalism was built around a narrow ideal
🔹 Strategies for navigating the double binds marginalized professionals face

So much career advice starts with “work hard” and ends with “network.” But what about the rules no one tells you?

I recently joined Dr. Natalie Luke on the UnCeiling You podcast to break down the unwritten rules that shape who gets ahead—and who gets left out.

100 men vs. 1 gorilla?

How about the working class against the oligarchy?

The upward redistribution of wealth over the past 50 years has shifted $80 trillion from the bottom 90% of Americans to the top 1%.

This is the real fight we need to be talking about.

Unpopular opinion: I’d rather work in a regular #hierarchy than a “flat” one. Deets in the video.
Which do you prefer?
#workculture #leadership

People from #workingclass backgrounds often struggle with self-promotion - an unwritten rule of work.

I'm gonna start planting my partner in the audience every time so he can ask “DO YOU HAVE A BOOK?!”
#selfpromotion #unwrittenrules #unspokenrules #manager #earlycareer

Is #toxic individualism sabotaging your organization? Tell me about it in the comments!

#workculture #leadershipdevelopment #management #unwrittenrules #workingclass

The unwritten message is clear: "Your success requires others to fail." This transforms collaborators into competitors, where knowledge becomes currency to hoard rather than share.

Remember when Microsoft abandoned stack ranking after losing HALF its market cap because employees focused on competing internally instead of innovating? That was 2014.

So why is it back in 2025? 🤔

My research shows this harms:

Working-class employees
People from collectivist cultures
Women (especially those expected to be "team players")

As an I/O psychologist studying workplace unwritten rules, I've seen how this system fundamentally reshapes culture:

Companies force-rank employees on a bell curve
They eliminate "bottom" performers regardless of actual contribution
They pretend this is objective when it's anything but

Toxic Individualism: The Unwritten Rule Behind Stack Ranking's Comeback
Stack ranking isn't just performance management—it's toxic individualism disguised as meritocracy (yes, even at companies with "teamwork" plastered on their values page 🙄)

It’s not nobody pulling on their bootstraps. It’s wage theft.

I also wonder, for these leaders who want to flatten the hierarchy, why does your power make you uncomfortable?

#unwrittenrules #agile #holacracy #status #leadership

...Thus, the true power is not actually shared."

That's why, controversially, I often prefer clear hierarchies—at least then you know exactly who has the power to make things happen.

"I have noticed a trend in American organizations to try to appear lower power distance while building farther degrees of separation between the top and bottom levels. For instance, Holacracy provides the illusion of low power distance, but it does not change the financial ownership of the company..

The #tech industry's beloved frameworks like Holacracy and Agile promise democratic workplaces, but without leaders willing to genuinely distribute authority, these systems merely disguise power rather than share it.

n my upcoming book "The Unwritten Rules of Work," I explain:

As an industrial-organizational psychologist studying workplace dynamics across sectors (from Big Four firms to government agencies), I've consistently found that rejecting traditional org charts doesn't create equality—it creates confusion about who actually makes decisions.