The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and Growth
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Conquer the most essential adaptation to the knowledge economy
The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and Growth offers practical guidance for teams and organizations who are serious about success in the modern economy. With so much riding on innovation, creativity, and spark, it is essential to attract and retain quality talent―but what good does this talent do if no one is able to speak their mind? The traditional culture of “fitting in” and “going along” spells doom in the knowledge economy. Success requires a continuous influx of new ideas, new challenges, and critical thought, and the interpersonal climate must not suppress, silence, ridicule or intimidate. Not every idea is good, and yes there are stupid questions, and yes dissent can slow things down, but talking through these things is an essential part of the creative process. People must be allowed to voice half-finished thoughts, ask questions from left field, and brainstorm out loud; it creates a culture in which a minor flub or momentary lapse is no big deal, and where actual mistakes are owned and corrected, and where the next left-field idea could be the next big thing.
This book explores this culture of psychological safety, and provides a blueprint for bringing it to life. The road is sometimes bumpy, but succinct and informative scenario-based explanations provide a clear path forward to constant learning and healthy innovation.
- Explore the link between psychological safety and high performance
- Create a culture where it’s “safe” to express ideas, ask questions, and admit mistakes
- Nurture the level of engagement and candor required in today’s knowledge economy
- Follow a step-by-step framework for establishing psychological safety in your team or organization
Shed the “yes-men” approach and step into real performance. Fertilize creativity, clarify goals, achieve accountability, redefine leadership, and much more. The Fearless Organization helps you bring about this most critical transformation.
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Additional information
| Publisher | 1st edition (28 Dec. 2018), Wiley |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Hardcover | 256 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 1119477247 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1119477242 |
| Dimensions | 14.99 x 2.54 x 22.86 cm |
by Ian Muir
This book is absolutely outstanding. Time after time, the examples give deep insight into the perils of fear-based, command and control cultures that can bring down an organisation. But this isn’t just a list of examples good and bad. The author builds a model and a toolkit guide – explaining how to implement a culture of psychological safety in which people speak up. If you ever worry whether people are telling you what’s really going on – this is the help you need. I would give it 6 stars if allowed.
by AK
Easy read and well constructed. I would like to see a version specifically for medical professionals. I would like to understand a bit more about the “how”.
by Helena
I work in an organisation that thinks it values everyone, and aims to have an open and honest culture, but there’s variability in how that gets implemented and there are still knee-jerk threats made about “if anyone does that again, they’ll be…” So even in a relatively mature organisation with a generally good safety culture, and good intentions, there is still lots for each individual to understand about the impacts and implications of what they say and do.
I’m lucky in that at least my organisation and industry know where they ought to be heading, there are others where the philosophy in this book will be completely eye-opening. Read it, use it and share it.
by Giles
A really fascinating book and an important read to understand how to engage staff in a positive and inclusive way.
I recommend this for any people leading and managing teams as a way to create a space to get genuine feedback and make employees opinions feel valued.
by Amazon Customer
This is a very good take on psychological safety. Explains the concept really well and shows us actions to take.
by N. J. Parker
The book reads well and its examples are useful for those relatively new to organisational leadership but it reiterates a narrative that has been around for a very long time. For me it doesn’t offer anything new and/or thought provoking.
by Paul Ellmes
I am an owner of a company, and school principal, and wanted to learn more about organisational psychology, and to understand HR better than I do. It’s an easily read book, and the author develops and maintains interest is through reference to real life examples of workplace and corporate practice in the vein of ‘The Innovator’s Dilemma”. It’s not one of those ‘Can’t put down’ books (which, along with being a little repetitive, is why I gave it 4 stars not 5), but for a layperson, not formally read in psychology, and interested in either making your company work, or understanding the toxic environment you may be working in (read bullying), then this is certainly a very worthwhile read.
by Anish
A great book on organisational psychology that is laid out in 2 parts.
The first part is all about the problems that can surface if people feel unable to speak up in organisations.
The second part describes some solutions that can be put in place to overcome these problems. And this creates what the author describes as a ‘fearless organisation’
I really enjoyed this and will use some of the learnings in my own work