Amy Edmondson’s new work!

Right Kind of Wrong:

The Science of Failing Well

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What’s wrong with how leaders approach failure today
How to help your team practice more “good” failure and avoid more “bad” failure
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Help your team fail intelligently this fall.

Some leaders encourage their teams to “fail fast”. Other leaders forbid failure as “not an option”. Both approaches are wrong.

In conversation hosted by Josh Bersin, Harvard Business School’s Amy Edmondson will help you think differently about failure in 2023.

About the book:

The world is growing ever more complex in ways both global and personal. From climate change to the economy, from parenting to choosing a career, life is fraught with complicated challenges. For these issues and many others, navigating failure with aplomb is essential.

But when it comes to a problem-solving mindset, we’re often torn between two failure cultures, says Dr. Amy Edmondson of Harvard Business School. One says “Failure is not an option” and must be avoided at all costs. Another advises “Fail fast, break things” as the path to achievement. They’re each memorable slogans, but neither leads to long-term success.

Instead, we need to reframe how we understand failure —on both a personal and cultural level —and learn to recognize the crucial distinctions that separate good failure from bad. Drawing on decades of original research, Dr. Edmondson shares how we can surpass a superficial approach to failure in RIGHT KIND OF WRONG: The Science of Failing Well (Atria Books; September 5, 2023).

No skill in life is more important than learning from failure—and no one on earth knows more about it than Amy Edmondson. Drawing on her eye-opening evidence and rich practical experience, she offers a wealth of insight on how to take intelligent risks and bounce forward after setbacks. If everyone internalized the ideas in this important book, we would all be safer, smarter, and more successful.

— Adam Grant
#1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Again and Hidden Potential, and host of the TED podcast Re:Thinking

Meet Amy Edmondson

Amy C. Edmondson is the Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at the Harvard Business School, renowned for her research on psychological safety over twenty years. Her award-winning work has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, Psychology Today, Fast Company, Harvard Business Review, and more. Named by Thinkers50 in 2021 as the #1 Management Thinker in the world, Edmondson’s TED Talk “How to Turn a Group of Strangers into a Team” has been viewed over three million times. She received her Ph.D., AM, and AB from Harvard University. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and is the author of Right Kind of Wrong, The Fearless Organization, and Teaming.

Hosted by Josh Bersin

CEO, The Josh Bersin Company and Founding Advisor at Teamraderie

Industry analyst Josh Bersin focuses on the global talent market, trends, and technologies impacting workforces across all industry segments. His research is featured in publications such as Forbes, Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, Wall Street Journal, Economic Times, Financial Times, and Washington Post, and he published his book Irresistible in 2022. The Josh Bersin Company provides a wide range of research and services for HR leaders and teams; the Josh Bersin Academy, which today has approximately 50,000 members, offers 24 cohort-based programs for HR professionals.

THE best book ever written on learning from failure by THE researcher who taught millions of us about the power of psychological safety in our workplaces. Right Kind of Wrong is packed with Amy Edmondson’s relentless wisdom and warmth, and above all, proven solutions that will help you build teams and companies where we fallible humans can thrive.

— Bob Sutton
New York Times bestselling author of The Friction Project, Scaling Up Excellence, and Good Boss, Bad Boss

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