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  • 16 Jun 2021
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Harvard Business School: How to Build Fearless Organizations

By: Amy C. Edmondson and Ron Lovett
  • Format:Audio
  • | Language:English
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Abstract

Our guest is Amy Edmondson - Professor of Leadership and Management at Harvard Business School. Amy has authored multiple books, including her most recent, The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation and Growth, which has been translated into 15 languages. Amy has been recognized by Thinkers50 global ranking of management thinkers since 2011, and recently ranked #3 in 2019; she also received their Breakthrough Idea Award, and Talent Award. In this episode of Scaling Culture, Ron and Amy discuss: How to build psychological safety on a team and organizational level? What role psychological safety plays in building a diverse and inclusive environment at work? How to set the stage as a leader for your staff to have a strong answer to the question ‘Why bother?’ How to be explicit in asking for feedback and clear that you don’t expect your team to have all the answers? For more information Amy, connect with her on LinkedIn and to learn more about Amy's books, please go to Amy's page on Amazon.com

Keywords

Psychological Safety; Organizational Culture; Leadership; Diversity; Communication

Citation

"Harvard Business School: How to Build Fearless Organizations." No. 51. Scaling Culture (podcast), June 16, 2021.
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Amy C. Edmondson

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