Getting your seventh wind, and other small epiphanies
It’s been a long pandemic. We hope we are in the home stretch, but many of us in one way or another need to find our second wind. Or any wind. Pick a number.| Amy C. Edmondson
It’s been a long pandemic. We hope we are in the home stretch, but many of us in one way or another need to find our second wind. Or any wind. Pick a number.| amycedmondson.com
The best of the web: start here Psychological Safety Weekly NewsletterWeekly roundup of articles from all over. Curated by @Tom_Geraghty. Google’s ReWork Guide: Understand Team EffectivenessGoogle’s guide to fostering psychological safety. Action steps and a customizable worksheet. A Guide to Psychological SafetyLearner Lab Guide to creating psychological safety. The Neuroscience of Psychological SafetyFrom the NeuroLeadership …| Amy C. Edmondson
Delighted to see myself quoted in the weekend’s New York Times. This article is worth a read. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/30/well/mind/work-stress-quitting.html| Amy C. Edmondson
Two images that are worth a thousand words.| Amy C. Edmondson
Today’s leaders must learn to think like scientists. This does not mean you pick up a pipette and stop being a manager, dedicated to creating value for customers. Instead, thinking like a scientist means understanding that your job is to navigate uncertainty with curiosity and passion – so as to engage others in the inherently …| Amy C. Edmondson
This is the article I’d have written myself, if only I knew things about improv! FANTASTIC table here expressly linking #improv to concepts from my book #TheFearlessOrganization. You won’t regret taking a peek. psychologicalsafety #intelligentfailure| Amy C. Edmondson
A common misperception about psychological safety is that it means lowering standards, giving up on accountability, or “wrapping teams in cotton wool,” as Dan Cable of London Business School puts it. I have spilled a great deal of ink correcting this notion. Being a social scientist, I also love a good 2 x 2 matrix. …| Amy C. Edmondson
How a leader takes responsibility: They admit fallibility. They ask forgiveness. They explicitly create space for speaking up. And they mean it! It’s almost like #TedLasso has been studying The Fearless Organization. Chapter 7, The Leader’s Toolkit, to be precise. If only. But the message is there and that’s what counts.| Amy C. Edmondson
I’ve been thinking about #TedLasso’s biscuits with the boss. It’s a pretty bold culture change initiative that goes in a non-traditional direction: upwards. In real life, managing up is tricky. It helps to have Ted’s fearlessness and force of personality; it helps to have Ted’s race and gender. It helps to be in upper management, like …| Amy C. Edmondson
Have I said what a huge honor it is to be chosen by @Thinkers50 as their #1? It’s also a testament to those who amplify this work every day — front-line workers, leaders of every stripe, coaches, scholars. Every two years, the nice people at Thinkers50 put out a ranking of the world’s management thinkers. …| Amy C. Edmondson
It’s been a long pandemic. We hope we are in the home stretch, but many of us in one way or another need to find our second wind. Or any wind. Pick a number.| Amy C. Edmondson
