SUMMARY
Are you a leader who wants to help your team learn to risk more and fail well? In this episode, Harvard Business School professor Amy C. Edmondson sits down with our Jason Jaggard to unpack her research behind her latest book, The Right Kind of Wrong: The Science of Failing Well. Their conversation includes the difference between a mistake and a failure, the 3 categories of failures, and how to encourage a team to experiment and learn quickly.
IN THIS EPISODE
- What is Amy’s background, and what was her path to being a professor at Harvard Business School?
- How do you define “psychological safety”?
- How do we overcome our tendency to be blind to our own shortcomings?
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STANDOUTS AND TAKEAWAYS
- You’re here on earth to make things better.
- High performing teams do not make more mistakes; they are simply more willing to report them.
- Psychological safety is NOT “being comfortable.” It’s feeling permission for candor and making mistakes.
- “Safety” does not mean “the absence of risk or danger,” but the willingness to risk.
- In a changing world, our ability to learn together is mission critical.
- There is a difference between a mistake and failure. A mistake is a unintentional deviation from a known practice; a failure is simply an undesired result.
- All failure is not equal. There are (a) basic failures; (b) complex failures; and (c) intelligent failures.
- An intelligent failure is: an undesired result of a thoughtful foray into new territory. It’s also as small as possible.
- Always choose learning over “knowing”.
- In a situation that’s brand new for your team, it’s important for a leader to:
- Acknowledge that it’s brand new
- Encourage team to experiment (and learn) quickly
- If you’re leading someone who is a high performer but working in a new context, encourage them to (a) aim high; (b) team up; (c) fail well; (d) learn fast; and repeat.
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Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management | Harvard Business SchoolJason Jaggard
Coach, Speaker, Author and Founder | Novus GlobalEp 155: Harvard Business School Professor Amy C. Edmondson on the Science of Failing Well
TOPICS IN THIS PODCAST
CollaborationConflict ManagementInfluenceLeading OrganizationsLeading OthersPerformance ManagementStrategySupervising PeopleVisionAre you a leader who wants to help your team learn to risk more and fail well? In this episode, Harvard Business School professor Amy C. Edmondson sits down with our Jason Jaggard to unpack her research behind her latest book, The Right Kind of Wrong: The Science of Failing Well. Their conversation includes the difference between a mistake and a failure, the 3 categories of failures, and how to encourage a team to experiment and learn quickly.
On This Podcast
Whitney Putnam
Global Leadership Network
Whitney Putnam is the Vice President of Marketing at the Global Leadership Network. She is passionate about men and women working together to expand their influence so that many more people come to know Jesus. As a builder, Whitney cares deeply about building healthy and holistic communities of people, from the team she has the joy of working with at the GLN to those in her neighborhood. She is a well-respected leader and innovator having served as an executive leader at several global non-profits. She’s a mom to three little girls and married to a tall redhead named Michael. They can most often be found dancing in their kitchen and occasionally sprinkling confetti in greeting cards, all while living in Dallas, Texas.
Amy Edmondson
Harvard Business School
Amy Edmondson has been recognized by the biannual Thinkers50 global list of top management thinkers since 2011. She is the author of four books, including Teaming: How Organizations Learn, Innovate and Compete in the Knowledge Economy, exploring why teamwork is so important in today’s organizations—and why it is so challenging. Her most recent release: The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and Growth offers practical guidance for teams and organizations who are serious about finding success in today’s modern economy.
Jason Jaggard
Novus Global
Jason Jaggard is an entrepreneur, author, executive coach and speaker. His work has been translated into over 50 languages and has been featured in Fast Company, Forbes, Entrepreneur and Chief Executive Magazine. He is the founder of Novus Global, an executive coaching firm working with Fortune 500 companies, professional athletes, elected officials and some of the most famous entertainers on earth. He also co-founded and is on the faculty of The Meta Performance Institute, which helps coaches create six figure practices serving high performing leaders and teams. His next book, Beyond High Performance: What Great Coaches Know about How the Best Get Better is out this May, 2023.
Show Notes
SUMMARY
Are you a leader who wants to help your team learn to risk more and fail well? In this episode, Harvard Business School professor Amy C. Edmondson sits down with our Jason Jaggard to unpack her research behind her latest book, The Right Kind of Wrong: The Science of Failing Well. Their conversation includes the difference between a mistake and a failure, the 3 categories of failures, and how to encourage a team to experiment and learn quickly.
IN THIS EPISODE
LISTEN
Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube
STANDOUTS AND TAKEAWAYS
LINKS + RESOURCES MENTIONED
FOLLOW US
Instagram | Facebook | LinkedIn | X |
SPONSOR
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