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The Fearless Organization | Book Series

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Overview:

Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and Growth offers practical guidance for teams and organizations who are serious about success in the modern economy. With so much riding on innovation, creativity, and spark, it is essential to attract and retain quality talent—but what good does this talent do if no one is able to speak their mind? The traditional culture of “fitting in” and “going along” spells doom in the knowledge economy. Success requires a continuous influx of new ideas, new challenges, and critical thought, and the interpersonal climate must not suppress, silence, ridicule or intimidate. Not every idea is good, and yes there are stupid questions, and yes dissent can slow things down, but talking through these things is an essential part of the creative process. People must be allowed to voice half-finished thoughts, ask questions from left field, and brainstorm out loud; it creates a culture in which a minor flub or momentary lapse is no big deal, and where actual mistakes are owned and corrected, and where the next left-field idea could be the next big thing.

This book explores this culture of psychological safety, and provides a blueprint for bringing it to life. The road is sometimes bumpy, but succinct and informative scenario-based explanations provide a clear path forward to constant learning and healthy innovation.

  • Explore the link between psychological safety and high performance
  • Create a culture where it’s “safe” to express ideas, ask questions, and admit mistakes
  • Nurture the level of engagement and candor required in today’s knowledge economy
  • Follow a step-by-step framework for establishing psychological safety in your team or organization

Shed the “yes-men” approach and step into real performance. Fertilize creativity, clarify goals, achieve accountability, redefine leadership, and much more. The Fearless Organization helps you bring about this most critical transformation.

Author:   

Amy C. Edmondson

Published In:

20 November 2018

Evolvagility| Book Series

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Overview:

Growing an Agile Leadership Culture from the Inside Out takes an alternative perspective–one in which we view mindset and culture not from the outside in, but from the inside out. From this perspective, we are interested in the inner capabilities that determine how people think; how they make sense of complex situations around them; the beliefs and values they hold; people’s ability to hold perspectives that are different from their own; their ability (or lack thereof) to relate with others in ways that leave those others empowered and enabled.

But, even more than this, we want to know how we might help ourselves and others grow those capabilities. Again, not from the outside in–the world of processes and structures or even behaviors; but rather from the inside out–from the world of sensemaking and consciousness, and from there out into the world of relationships and, beyond that, out into the world of organizational environments.

Evolvagility synthesizes a human technology from a variety of fields that include adult developmental psychology, relationship systems, executive coaching, and organization development. It leads us toward a deeper understanding of the anatomy of human sensemaking, and how it impacts people’s capacity for effective and creative action. And it provides a practical methodology with which we might increase the capacity of that inner sensemaking in order to help ourselves, and others, make sense of the complexity and ambiguity of the situations we in ourselves in as players in 21st Century organizational life

Author:   

Michael Hamman

Published In:

14 January 2019