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Amy Edmondson on Psychological Safety: Speaking Up, Learning, and Accountability

Amy Edmondson, Harvard Business School professor and author of The Fearless Organization, photographed during a discussion about psychological safety — the workplace concept her 1999 research established as a measurable variable predicting team learning and performance.

What does Amy Edmondson mean by psychological safety? People can raise a concern, ask for help, disagree, or admit a mistake without expecting humiliation or punishment for speaking up. That matters when a team needs to discover problems and learn…

Mark Graban
January 22, 2020
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