Upcoming Live-Streamed Conversation with Amy Edmondson
July 27, 2023
"This book is about what makes learning from failure so difficult to put into practice in our day-to-day lives and in the institutions we build. It's also about how we can do better."
Boswell Books and Porchlight Book Company present a live-streamed interview with Amy Edmondson, author of Right Kind of Wrong: The Science of Failing Well, on September 5, 2023 at 3pm CST through Zoom. Amy will be in conversation with Porchlight's Managing Director Sally Haldorson.
ABOUT THE BOOK
A revolutionary guide that will transform your relationship with failure, from the pioneering researcher of psychological safety and award-winning Harvard Business School professor Amy Edmondson.
We used to think of failure as the opposite of success. Now, we’re often torn between two “failure cultures”: one that says to avoid failure at all costs, the other that says fail fast, fail often. The trouble is that both approaches lack the crucial distinctions to help us separate good failure from bad. As a result, we miss the opportunity to fail well.
After decades of award-winning research, Amy Edmondson is here to upend our understanding of failure and make it work for us. In Right Kind of Wrong, Edmondson provides the framework to think, discuss, and practice failure wisely. Outlining the three archetypes of failure—basic, complex, and intelligent—Amy showcases how to minimize unproductive failure while maximizing what we gain from flubs of all stripes. She illustrates how we and our organizations can embrace our human fallibility, learn exactly when failure is our friend, and prevent most of it when it is not. This is the key to pursuing smart risks and preventing avoidable harm.
With vivid, real-life stories from business, pop culture, history, and more, Edmondson gives us specifically tailored practices, skills, and mindsets to help us replace shame and blame with curiosity, vulnerability, and personal growth. You’ll never look at failure the same way again.
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