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“Amy Edmondson is a very distinguished Harvard researcher, best known for having explored the concept of âpsychological safety.â This is the idea, which she pursues further in this book, that you can only advance and become more successful if you are in an environment where you can safely admitâand indeed call outâerrors and mistakes being made. She did a lot of work, which recurs in this book, in the healthcare sector. Thatâs where she started and where she discoveredâslightly to her astonishmentâthat it wasnât the teams that were making the fewest errors that were the most successful. It was the teams that were admitting to the most errors, because they were then able to correct and work together to improve. That is the fundamental underpinning of her research and that of others in this area. She bases this on a fundamental point: that if we’re not able to admit to failure and to approach failure in a constructive way, we’re never going to want to take any risks. Weâre not going to be able to make the smarter and more adventurous decisions that lead us to advance. I find it a very compelling hypothesis, well backed up by research and interesting tales â everything from the Columbia shuttle disaster to open heart surgery â to show how we reached the level of sophistication that we now have in some of these vital areas. I think itâs an important book from an important researcher.” Read more...
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