Creating Fearless Organizations | Dr. Amy Edmondson

Amy C. Edmondson, PhD, is the Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at the Harvard Business School, a chair established to support the study of human interactions that lead to the creation of successful enterprises that contribute to the betterment of society. Edmondson has been recognized by the biannual Thinkers50 global ranking of management thinkers in 2011, 2013, 2015 and 2017 and was honored with the Talent Award in 2017. If you are not familiar with Thinkers50 it has been described as “The Oscars of Management Thinking.” This year (2019) Amy Edmondson is nominated for the Breakthrough Idea award. Her work on psychological safety is considered to be thinking that has the potential to change the world.

Dr. Edmondson studies teaming, psychological safety, and leadership. Her new book,The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation and Growth (Wiley, 2018), offers a practical guide for organizations serious about success in the modern economy.

In this episode we explore:

-Amy's unexpected journey to discovering the importance of psychological safety
-Why fear is not an effective motivator for learning, teamwork, and innovation
-A closer look at organizations like Pixar and how they have built strong psychological safety within their teams
-How psychological safety is a catalyst for courage
-Practical strategies for creating psychological safety
-How leaders can make, or break, psychological safety within organizational cultures
-And more!

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