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Right Kind of Wrong

Why Learning to Fail Can Teach Us to Thrive

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Right Kind of Wrong

By: Amy C. Edmondson
Narrated by: Kathe Mazur
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Brought to you by Penguin.

Winner of the Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award

We used to think of failure as a problem, to be avoided at all costs. Now, we're often told that failure is desirable - that we must ‘fail fast, fail often’. The trouble is, neither approach distinguishes the good failures from the bad. As a result, we miss the opportunity to fail well.

Here, Amy Edmondson – the world’s most influential organisational psychologist – reveals how we get failure wrong, and how to get it right. Drawing on four decades of research into the world’s most effective teams, she unveils the three archetypes of failure – basic, complex and intelligent - and explains how to harness the revolutionary potential of the good ones (and eliminate the bad). Along the way, she poses a simple, provocative question: What if it is only by learning to fail that we can hope to truly succeed?

‘Absolutely outstanding’ Tim Harford, author of The Undercover Economist
'A masterclass’ Angela Duckworth, author of Grit
‘Excellent’ Andrew Hill, Financial Times
‘Lays out a clearer path about how to stop avoiding failure and take smarter risks.’ Books of the Year, Financial Times

©2023 Amy C. Edmondson (P)2023 Penguin Audio Career Success Leadership Management & Leadership Motivation & Self-Improvement Personal Development Personal Success Business Career Management

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This book is a must listen. Some parts might seem obvious but many of us don’t recognize them. I find the guidelines extremely practical. Highly recommended!

Great book!

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This is clearly a well researched work with lots of examples from life and business on various failures. However, the book does not offer any huge breakthroughs or original ideas on how to improve and learn from failure experience. It could have been probably written as an extended article rather than a book.

Well researched work, but no huge breakthroughs

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Detailed evidenced based research rather than woolly opinion. Worth the investment of time and concentration.

Thought provoking ideas on how to develop a culture that learns from mistakes rather than hides them

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I have read it once and found the information interesting, informative and helpful. I do however think that a second reading would be very worthwhile as, although it is interestingly written there is an enormous amount to take in and a second reading would help me to digest it better.

A definite worthwhile read.

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Great insights and very complementary to team-coaching in an inclusive environment. I look forward to sharing these principles with my teams.

Inspired to fail so I can learn more

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Every aspect of risk and conduct is considered, and how these interact with many many other aspects of life, actions, conduct and effort. Their association with features of life, behavioural psychology, and engineering mechanisms pan a subject area normally overlooked whilst pursuing compartmentalized effort as is usual in life and society. I can't really praise the book highly enough and I hope anyone on the edge of considering purchasing this work takes time and (just a little) effort to take advantage and carefully consider all that may be learned within the text.

A thorough and excellent guide to the subject

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This was a really good book right up to the point that the author started to preach about LGBTQ+. It didn’t need it. There are plenty of good pieces of information and techniques to help people become more accepting of failures and this could have easily received 5 stars from me however, her social/political views should be left to fill another book.

It didn’t need the activism.

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Some chapters could be shortened, overall nice book for innovators, managers and even parents.

Good book about failure

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clear evidence that it's not about always getting it right but learning to accept when you haven't and being able to stand up to be counted for our errors

fostering a high performance culture

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