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Teaming : how organizations learn, innovate, and compete in the knowledge economy Amy C. Edmondson ; foreword by Edgar H. Schein

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, c2012.Description: xiii, 334 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780787970932
  • 078797093X (cloth)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 658.4022 ED TE
Online resources: 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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ENTR904 / MGNT944 Spring2025

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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