Embracing Intelligent Failures for Growth and Learning

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This chapter explores the concept of intelligent failures, emphasizing their importance in driving innovation and expanding knowledge. It discusses various types of failures, emotional responses to failures, and the significance of learning from mistakes to progress in both personal and professional endeavors. Examples from different industries and individuals showcase how embracing failures as opportunities for learning can lead to success and growth.

Amy Edmondson shares how to minimize unproductive failures and maximize intelligent ones.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) What separates good failure from bad failure

2) The surprisingly simple tool that prevents many failures

3) How to stay motivated in the face of failure

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— ABOUT AMY —

Amy C. Edmondson is the Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at the Harvard Business School. Her work explores teaming – the dynamic forms of collaboration needed in environments characterized by uncertainty and ambiguity. She has also studied the role of psychological safety in teamwork and innovation. Before her academic career, she was Director of Research at Pecos River Learning Centers, where she worked with founder and CEO Larry Wilson to design change programs in large companies. In the early 1980s, she worked as Chief Engineer for architect/inventor Buckminster Fuller, and innovation in the built environment remains an area of enduring interest and passion.

• Book: Right Kind of Wrong: The Science of Failing Well

• Website: AmyCEdmondson.com

• Check out the interview in video format on YouTube!

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• Study: “The Intuitive Psychologist and His Shortcomings: Distortions in the Attribution Process” by Lee Ross

• Book: The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right by Atul Gawande

• Book: The Road to Character by David Brooks

• Past episode: 707: Amy Edmondson on How to Build Thriving Teams with Psychological Safety

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