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Leadership Book Club: How to Read Courageous Cultures With Your Team

Let's Grow Leaders

Practical ways to engage your team (or leadership book club) as you read Courageous Cultures together. One of the real joys of being authors is hearing from leadership book clubs and teams who are reading our books together. And, you don’t get better at leadership or building culture just by reading a book.

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What Makes a Failure Intelligent

QAspire

Failures in new territories that pave the way for eventual success are what Amy Edmondson describes as “Intelligent Failures” in her newly released book “ The Right Kind of Wrong – The Science of Failing Well ”. Only with an informed mental model about what should happen are you able to observe an anomaly.”

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10 Books to Get You Back to Work – Fall 2023

Leading Blog

Edmondson - (September 2023) We used to think of failure as the opposite of success. With vivid, real-life stories from business, pop culture, history, and more, Edmondson gives us specifically tailored practices, skills, and mindsets to help us replace shame and blame with curiosity, vulnerability, and personal growth.

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Attributes of a Powerful Question

QAspire

What is critical is asking the right questions within the frame of specific context involve people, build trust, find solutions, foster collective learning and encourage innovation. In her book “ The Fearless Organization ”, Amy Edmondson writes,when leaders overcome their biases to ask genuine questions, it fosters psychological safety….

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5 Suggestions for Writing Better Informational Emails

Ron Edmondson

I’m talking about informational emails. These are emails which have information in them I probably need. I know it’s probably vital information. How can we write better informational emails? Here are 5 suggestions for informational emails: Personalize the email to your intended audience.

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Where Have All the Questions Gone?

Lead Change Blog

This usually means that they will not ask for clarity, request feedback, or wonder about something that is innovative or new. Edmondson coined the term psychological safety to capture the degree to which people believe their environment is conducive to taking these risks. Questions that seek additional facts or information.

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Does Your Culture Produce Innovators or Followers?

Ron Edmondson

His statement was that he “ wants to lead an organization that produces innovative leaders. ” And I love that and it’s a goal for me in leadership. Here are some general characteristics of those two environments: One that produces innovative leaders. The post Does Your Culture Produce Innovators or Followers?