Amy Edmondson: The Science of Failing Well and Why We Avoid Learning From Mistakes
About this episode
Amy Edmondson discusses the types of failure and how to learn from them.
Harvard professor Amy Edmondson breaks down the three types of failure—intelligent, basic, and complex—and why most of us never learn from them. She explores why kids lose their natural curiosity about failure as they grow up, how to design experiments that generate useful failures, and the systems thinking required to prevent cascading disasters. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
People in this episode
Host: Srinivas Rao
Guest: Amy Edmondson
Topics covered
- failure
- learning
- curiosity
- experimentation
- systems thinking
Keywords
- failure types
- intelligent failure
- basic failure
- complex failure
- learning from mistakes
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Harvard, Acast
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