Amy Edmondson’s career has been spent exploring how leaders build workplaces where people can innovate, learn and grow.
Through her research, she’s found, time and again, that psychological safety underpins enhanced team performance and accelerated results.
The Fearless Organization explores psychological safety, creating a compelling business case for any organisation looking to thrive in the 21st Century. It provides real-world examples of both what can happen when leaders focus on creating the right environment for learning and innovation, and also what has happened to organisations whose leaders have ruled in climates of fear.
As we lean into increasingly ambiguous and uncertain markets, those leaders who focus on the psychological wellbeing of their teams will undoubtedly gain myriad advantages. Those who don’t embrace this as a fundamental of business from hereon in will struggle to survive