Episode 48
Leading Your Team to the Top of Mt. Everest
Cold Call · HBR Presents / Brian Kenny
May 2, 201710m 57s
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Show Notes
What does it take to successfully lead a team to the top of the highest peak in the world? First-year students find out as they participate together in, “Everest: A Leadership and Team Simulation.” Harvard Business School professor Amy Edmondson talks about the choice to use Mt. Everest as the backdrop for this academic exercise, designing the simulation, and what students learn about teamwork along their way “up the mountain.”