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Harvard Business School Prof. Amy Edmondson - Why Learning to Fail Can Teach Us to Thrive
Season 11 · Episode 24

Harvard Business School Prof. Amy Edmondson - Why Learning to Fail Can Teach Us to Thrive

Drawing on a lifetime’s research, the world’s most influential organisational psychologist reveals how failures can lead us to happier, more successful lives.

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December 1, 20231h 0m

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Show Notes

Amy Edmondson is one of the world's most influential organisational psychologists, a professor at Harvard Business School, and an expert on the concept of psychological safety.  She joined to answer a simple, provocative question: what if it is only by learning to fail that we can truly hope to succeed?

Her new book Right Kind of Wrong doesn't tell us that failure is a problem; but it doesn't tell us to fail fast, fail often either. It tells us how to fail well. She joined Hannah MacInnes to share more.

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