Character
Amy Edmondson
Fail to Succeed
Members only. May 16, 2012 11AM ET
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Who is this workout for?
Project Managers, HR Professionals, Division Leaders, Department Managers, Team Leaders, Team Members, Executives, L&D Professionals.
Element: Character
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What you learn.
- Learn why failure isn't always bad, and sometimes good.
- Understand blameworthy and praiseworthy failures.
- Know early warnings signs of hidden failures.
- How to build a psychologically safe environment.
Why this event?
Failure. We're hypocrites about it. There are plenty of pleasant stories about the inevitability of failure and the importance of learning from it. But in real life--and in real companies--failure is discouraged. We're afraid of it. We avoid it. We penalize it.
Why it makes a difference.
It's time for people to get past platitudes and confront the F-word taboo. Failure is inevitable, often out of our control, but it's necessary and can accelerate success. We can choose to understand it, learn from it, and recover from it. Join Amy's session to learn why failure plays such a critical role in success.
Amy Edmondson
Amy C. Edmondson is the Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at Harvard Business School. Edmondson’s research examines leadership, learning and innovation in teams and organizations, and has been published in numerous academic and managerial articles. Her emphasis is on teaming – the activities that comprise collaborative work across boundaries – rather than on stable team structures. She is currently studying collaborative innovation in the context of the built environment, with a particular focus on projects developing eco-districts and sustainable cities.
Amy teaches MBA and Executive Education courses in leadership, team effectiveness, and organizational learning, and a doctoral course in field research methods. She has served on 26 doctoral committees and is the author of more than 25 Harvard Business School case studies, including cases on The Cleveland Clinic, General Motors Powertrain, Prudential Financial, Simmons Mattress Company, YUM brands, IDEO product design, Arup, and NASA's failed Columbia mission. In 2003, the Academy of Management's Organizational Behavior Division selected Professor Edmondson for the Cummings Award for outstanding achievement in early mid-career, and in 2000 selected her article, "Psychological safety and learning behavior in work teams," for its annual award for the best published paper in the field.
Before her academic career, Edmondson was Director of Research at Pecos River Learning Centers, where she worked with founder and CEO Larry Wilson to design and implement organizational change programs in a variety of Fortune 100 companies. In the early 1980s, she worked as Chief Engineer for architect/inventor Buckminster Fuller, and her book, A Fuller Explanation, clarifies Fuller's mathematical contributions for anon-technical audience.
Edmondson received her PhD in organizational behavior, AM in psychology, and AB in engineering and design, all from Harvard University.