Books by Amy Edmondson
“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...
The Best Business Books of 2023: the Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award
Andrew Hill, Journalist
Interviews where books by Amy Edmondson were recommended
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Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World
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Red Memory: The Afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution
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An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
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Right Kind of Wrong: Why Learning to Fail Can Teach Us to Thrive
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Resistance: The Underground War in Europe, 1939-1945
by Halik Kochanski
Award-Winning Nonfiction of 2023, recommended by Sophie Roell
Award-Winning Nonfiction of 2023, recommended by Sophie Roell
We live in a golden age for nonfiction, with many highly readable books about important issues published every year. As 2023 comes to a close, Five Books editor Sophie Roell introduces the nonfiction books that won prizes this year.
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Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
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Right Kind of Wrong: Why Learning to Fail Can Teach Us to Thrive
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How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything In Between
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Elon Musk
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Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
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The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma
by Michael Bhaskar & Mustafa Suleyman
The Best Business Books of 2023: the Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award, recommended by Andrew Hill
The Best Business Books of 2023: the Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award, recommended by Andrew Hill
If you like nonfiction books that will get you up to speed with what’s going on in the world, the Financial Times annual book prize is a great place to start. If you run a business, one or two useful books also feature. Andrew Hill, the newspaper’s senior business writer, talks us through the books that made the 2023 shortlist, from cobalt extraction in the Congo to how to manage the AI genie that’s out of the bottle and coming towards us at speed.