The Fearless Organization

The Fearless Organization (2018) delves into psychological safety and how the workplace can become an environment in which everyone feels confident enough to pitch in and do their best. These abstracts explain why people hold back on sharing their ideas at work, how this harms businesses, and how leaders can encourage a culture of openness, questioning, and experimentation that leads to learning and innovation.

Amy C. Edmondson is a professor of leadership and management at the Harvard Business School. She’s been repeatedly ranked as one of the world’s most influential management thinkers by Thinkers50. She’s spent 20 years researching psychological safety, organizational learning, and leadership, and shared her expertise in publications such as the Harvard Business Review and the California Management Review. Edmondson is the author of Teaming and Teaming to Innovate, as well as the co-author of Building the Future and Extreme Teaming. © Amy C. Edmondson: The Fearless Organization copyright 2018, John Wiley & Sons Inc. Used by permission of John Wiley & Sons Inc. and shall not be made available to any unauthorized third parties.