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Teaming : how organizations learn, innovate, and compete in the knowledge economy

By: Edmondson, Amy C
Title By: Schein, Edgar H [Foreword by]
Material type: BookPublisher: San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, c2012.Description: xiii, 334 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780787970932; 078797093X (cloth)Program: MGNT944Subject(s): Teams in the workplace | Organizational learningDDC classification: 658.4022 ED TE Online resources: Ebook
Summary:
The next level of breakthrough thinking in organizational learning, leadership, and change Harvard professor Amy Edmondson shows how leaders can make organizational learning happen by building teams that learn. Based on years of research and case studies from Verizon, Bank of America, and Children’s Hospital, Edmondson outlines the factors that typically prevent groups from learning, such as the fear of failure, groupthink, power structures, and information hording. She shows how leaders can control these factors by encouraging reflection, creating psychological safety, and overcoming defensive routines that inhibit the sharing of ideas, among others. Leaders can use practical management strategies to help organizations realize the benefits inherent in both success and failure.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

The next level of breakthrough thinking in organizational learning, leadership, and change
Harvard professor Amy Edmondson shows how leaders can make organizational learning happen by building teams that learn. Based on years of research and case studies from Verizon, Bank of America, and Children’s Hospital, Edmondson outlines the factors that typically prevent groups from learning, such as the fear of failure, groupthink, power structures, and information hording. She shows how leaders can control these factors by encouraging reflection, creating psychological safety, and overcoming defensive routines that inhibit the sharing of ideas, among others. Leaders can use practical management strategies to help organizations realize the benefits inherent in both success and failure.

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