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Right Kind of Wrong: Why learning to fail can teach us to thrive

Amy Edmondson

"Award-winning Harvard Business School professor Amy Edmondson has influenced legion MBA grads as well as Big Think authors from Brené Brown to Adam Grant with her pioneering work on psychological safety. Now, Amy is bringing her work to the wider world, upending our entire cultural notion of failure with this guide to the science of failing well, which actualizes the potential of psychological safety for both individuals and organizations alike"--

Business & EconomicsBusiness & Economics · medium confidenceBusiness & Economics81 signalsLlm Classifier: Business & Economics -> Business & EconomicsGoogle Books: Failure (Psychology) -> Medicine & Public HealthAward Category: FT Business Book of the Year -> Business & EconomicsScience & DiscoveryBusiness, Capitalism & CorporationsEducation & UniversitiesLabor, Work & Organizing

Award History

1 wins · 1 total

AwardYearResultCategory / Notes
FT Business Book of the YearMajor2023WinnerSecondary source
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Experimental book profileGenerated by GPT-5.4 nano · may contain inaccuracies

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  1. 01 Central figures

    None extracted with sufficient confidence.

  2. 02 Central places

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  3. 03 Suggested argument

    No argument inferred with sufficient confidence.

    This suggestion did not meet the normal display threshold and is more likely to be wrong.

    Learning to fail well can help individuals and organizations thrive by actualizing the potential of psychological safety.

    Model confidence 58%

  4. 04 Reading orientation

    40 / 100 academic

    Serious trade

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Confidence percentages are the model's own estimates. Profile confidence: 66%.