Amy Edmondson
Professor of Leadership and Management at Harvard Business School, Author, American scholar of leadership, teaming, and organizational learning
Amy Edmondson is a renowned expert in teaming, team psychological safety (a term she coined), and organizational learning. Since 2011, she has consistently ranked among the top management thinkers in the biannual Thinkers50 global ranking, securing the #1 position in both 2021 and 2023. Her work has been published in leading academic and management journals, including Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal, and Harvard Business Review. Her book, The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and Growth, has been translated into 15 languages and has had a profound impact on organizational culture. Her latest book, Right Kind of Wrong, extends her previous work on psychological safety and teaming, offering a framework for embracing failure as a pathway to success.
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Intelligent failures begin with preparation. No scientist wants to waste time or materials on experiments that have been run before and failed. Do your homework. The classic intelligent failure is hypothesis driven. You’ve taken the time to think through what might happen—why you have reason to believe that you could be right about what will happen.
Flight Template Series: Amy Edmondson: Teaming, Learning from Failure, and Psychological Safety
Systems and Processes for Learning from Failure
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In your ongoing pursuit of excellence, it's crucial to examine how you approach failure within your team or organization. Assessing how your existing systems and processes influence your ability to learn from failure effectively is essential. This template, inspired by Amy Edmondson's research and principles, will help your team initiate constructive discussions aimed at identifying areas where you can enhance your approach to learning from failure.
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Systemic barriers or enablers
Identification of improvement opportunities
Strategies for adaptable systems and processes that accommodate learning from failures