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Right Kind of Wrong

Why Learning to Fail Can Teach Us to Thrive

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Right Kind of Wrong

By: Amy C. Edmondson
Narrated by: Kathe Mazur
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Brought to you by Penguin.

Winner of the Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award

We used to think of failure as a problem, to be avoided at all costs. Now, we're told that failure is desirable - that we must fail fast, fail often. The trouble is, both approaches fail to distinguish the good failures from the bad. As a result, we miss the opportunity to fail well.

Harvard Professor Amy Edmondson has spent four decades arguing that productive failure hold the key to lasting success. The world's leading expert on psychological safety, her research has shown that the most successful environments are those in which we can fail effectively - without our mistakes being held against us. Now, Edmondson offers a revolutionary framework to get these failures right. She outlines the three archetypes of failure - simple, complex, and intelligent - before revealing how to minimise the consequences of the bad failures and maximise the potential of the good.

Filled with vivid stories from business, pop culture and history, this revolutionary book is a rallying cry for us all to embrace our human fallibility and so learn to thrive. You will never look at failure the same way again.

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With great clarity and insight, Amy Edmondson shows us how we can make room for failure, recognizing that our emotions and personal needs are part of the solution. Right Kind of Wrong will inspire you to do your boldest work. (Ed Catmull, co-founder of Pixar and author of CREATIVITY, INC.)
A masterclass in navigating, and even seeking out, the inevitable failures that pave the way to success. The incomparable Amy Edmondson shows us how to see failures as beginnings rather than endings - and how to create the conditions for failing well. Comprehensive, clear, and full of real-world examples, a must-read for performers and leaders alike. (Angela Duckworth, author of GRIT)
The best book ever written on learning from failure by the researcher who taught millions of us about the power of psychological safety in our workplaces. Right Kind of Wrong is packed with Amy Edmondson's relentless wisdom and warmth, and above all, proven solutions that will help you build teams and companies where we fallible humans can thrive. (Robert Sutton, Stanford professor and author of THE NO ASSHOLE RULE)

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Great book!

This book is a must listen. Some parts might seem obvious but many of us don’t recognize them. I find the guidelines extremely practical. Highly recommended!

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Well researched work, but no huge breakthroughs

This is clearly a well researched work with lots of examples from life and business on various failures. However, the book does not offer any huge breakthroughs or original ideas on how to improve and learn from failure experience. It could have been probably written as an extended article rather than a book.

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Thought provoking ideas on how to develop a culture that learns from mistakes rather than hides them

Detailed evidenced based research rather than woolly opinion. Worth the investment of time and concentration.

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A definite worthwhile read.

I have read it once and found the information interesting, informative and helpful. I do however think that a second reading would be very worthwhile as, although it is interestingly written there is an enormous amount to take in and a second reading would help me to digest it better.

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Inspired to fail so I can learn more

Great insights and very complementary to team-coaching in an inclusive environment. I look forward to sharing these principles with my teams.

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A thorough and excellent guide to the subject

Every aspect of risk and conduct is considered, and how these interact with many many other aspects of life, actions, conduct and effort. Their association with features of life, behavioural psychology, and engineering mechanisms pan a subject area normally overlooked whilst pursuing compartmentalized effort as is usual in life and society. I can't really praise the book highly enough and I hope anyone on the edge of considering purchasing this work takes time and (just a little) effort to take advantage and carefully consider all that may be learned within the text.

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It didn’t need the activism.

This was a really good book right up to the point that the author started to preach about LGBTQ+. It didn’t need it. There are plenty of good pieces of information and techniques to help people become more accepting of failures and this could have easily received 5 stars from me however, her social/political views should be left to fill another book.

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Good book about failure

Some chapters could be shortened, overall nice book for innovators, managers and even parents.

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fostering a high performance culture

clear evidence that it's not about always getting it right but learning to accept when you haven't and being able to stand up to be counted for our errors

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