The Fearless Organization – Creating psychological safety in the workplace for learning, innovation and growth – Amy C. Edmondson

Confidence and humility are not opposites

No passion so effectively robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear,” wrote Edmond Burke  in 1756.  Unleashing the idea of ‘intelligent failure’ in organisations with strong psychological safety.  Successful failure as an art – failing to fail is the real failure.  Understanding interpersonal fear and that psychological safety lives at the group level.  Becoming the master of ‘I don’t know’.