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The Fearless Organization
- Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and Growth
- Narrated by: Jennifer Jill Araya
- Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Categories: Business & Careers, Management & Leadership
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Publisher's Summary
The Fearless Organization 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 audiobook 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.
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- Rebecca L.
- 26-04-2020
good
easy to listen to
doesn't go through much of the how, very high level, not much to work through on practical application.
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- Michael
- 28-11-2021
Could be shorter
This isn't a long book, but I feel the first 6 chapters could have been covered in 3, without losing any value; otherwise, it was easy to listen to and concepts easy to follow and understand. The final chapter being a FAQ wasn't a bad idea and I can see how it could be used to overcome objections or to promote personal and group engagement and responsibility for creating psychological safety within the workplace.
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- Rubherduckie
- 09-06-2021
Absolute must for anyone working with teams
This book is an absolute must for anyone working with / in/ for teams or managing teams.
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- Louise Thomson
- 13-05-2021
Delving Doppler into Psychological Safety
An excellent overview of the past 20 years research, case studies, examples and models for getting better at Psychological Safety.
An absolutely must read/listen if you are a leader or aspiring leader in the workplace.
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- Tomson79
- 13-10-2020
Insightful
I am excited to bring the learnings for this book into the field in my HSEQ role. Excited
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- DG
- 27-01-2020
The Foundation for Organizational Transformation
I have read several transformation books from Radical Candor to Humble Inquiry including several books by the Heath brothers and I have found all of these to be invaluable to transformation. That said, 'The Fearless Organization' is 'Mindset' (Carol Dweck) for the team/enterprise-at-large.
I truly feel as though this is the definitive'must-read' for any executive officer and/or team engaged in organizational transformation.
Amy Edmondson marries data with vulnerability in a way rarely achieved. She arms you with a panoply of techniques to give voice to the voiceless masses while gently dismissing the notion that transformation is either'mushy' and/or too slow and unrealistic. The example of the transformation in the South African mine was a really strong example of a commitment to transform an entire organization in a a very 'fixed mindset' industry.
I cannot recommend this book enough to any transformation evangelist.
Regards,
DG
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- M. Goode
- 14-03-2020
A Must Listen!!
I am extremely happy that I chose this book. My job is predicated on great leadership and this book is a great tool to have in my kit moving forward!
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- Amazon Customer
- 17-10-2019
Good story with clear handles and examples
Clear and sensible theory on creating a work environment where people feel safe enough to learn and grow, both individually and at the overarching company level. For anyone who’s worked in teams of any size, there will be clear handles allowing you to enhance or at least reflect on past, current and hopefully future situations.
Narration was clear, lively and a nice 1.0x pace for me personally.
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- Agnius101
- 15-10-2019
Good one, worth listening
However, there were too much emphasis on psychological safety benefits and why it matters.
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- Amazon Customer
- 10-06-2020
Great book!
love how it provides a review of important points in conclusion of each chapter. Also hits on diversity and inclusion.
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- naji n shakir
- 23-07-2019
hard to follow in audio
and if I hear psychological safety one more time I'm going to lose it.... I must of heard it over 300 times in the first two chapters
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- LINDA BEAUTY MARKS
- 21-06-2019
My Take Away For The Fearless Organization
The message was very clear about unbridled, transparent feedback.
I didn’t like hearing the phrase repeatedly to nauseam “Organizational Safety”.
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- Amazon Customer
- 15-05-2022
La organizacion sin miedo
Buenas reflexiones de como afecta el desempe;o de las empresas el miedo de los colaboradores para expresarse
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- wijola
- 21-02-2022
Sometimes dense, great "how" and "why" answers
the placement of the pragmatic recommendations toward the end is probably necessary since it requires new context for otherwise familiar stories. it does put the reader at risk of dropping off, maybe because some of the nuances between case studies seem small enough that it starts to feel repetitive. stick around for the end though- it's worth it.
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- Derrick Leong
- 02-01-2022
Loved the book and message
Well written, pace and insights were well placed for me. Examples were relevant and modern. I enjoyed this book very much and am inspired to make this a reality in my organisation. Thank you.
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- LC
- 05-08-2021
Great introduction to an important subject
I found this book really useful as an introduction on the subject of creating psychological safety in organisations and the benefits of doing so. Plenty of examples and practical advice.
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- stumpy_dan
- 20-05-2019
Every leaders new handbook
If you are fan of giants like Leaders eat Last or Drive then this book is for you and rightly sits on the digital shelf alongside them. Takes you though organisations that have psychological safety, those that don’t and more gives a great handbook of steps to start taking to get on that journey.
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- Jessica
- 11-05-2022
Fab book that stands the test of time
Such a useful book. My go to book for leaders B irrespective of its age. Love the story telling style makes the content so much more memorable when applying.
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- René B. Færch
- 07-03-2022
Not for work, for research
I had high expectations of this book because the reviews, I needed it as inspiration for creating psychological safety at work. The book starts out telling the disadvantages and advantages of lack of safety and a safe environment. I needed only a page on this as for many it would be self evident but ok. Continuing there are four chapters on different companies that failed at this. Then four chapters with companies that succeeded. The information isn’t that useful and there are no real takeaways. The book ends by summing up everything and left me with nothing more of knowledge as you could have gotten in a half hour YouTube video. I was very disappointed.
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- JJ
- 25-02-2022
Inspirational
Fantastic, informative read that is backed by narrative and research. The best investment of my time I've had in a while!
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- MJ
- 22-02-2022
Gladwellian Nonsense
Invent an effect that essentially means "All the good things" go look for the good things, find good things to back up the imaginary thing you named. In my top ten list of worst books ever. All the examples without exception talk about the proximal presence of physical harm, NOT the absence of Psychological Safety. In fact PS is better defined by the actions of people maintaining their PS by not speaking up. What an absolute sack of nonsense talking about people having the sack of nonsense to be successful, when they had absolutely no clue that the sack of nonsense even existed. Towards the end it even talks about PS being created by Leaderists that "pretend" to personify PS when they don't.
The good stuff they talk about, like every other similar book, is called an interpersonal relationship. You get them, when elitist old Leadership is replaced by partnership. Working together on something we care about, at least for a while.
The entire concept of psychological safety is little more than a cognitive bias: by stander, social collusion, group think whatever and none of them are good.
We need a little fear, a little anxiety, or energy or risk or desire to feel alive, it is the core of every creative process. The creators of PS just didn't understand the cognitive science and got their conclusion, horribly wrong. Fearless is a Darwin Award in the making. Fearlessness is the act of performing anyway, albeit within the conscious presence and psychological acceptance of fear.... and that's a good thing!
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- Cliente Amazon
- 25-05-2021
great concept but way to repetitive
concept behind is great but felt too repetitive, like having to tell the same point with 15 different stories
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- Kindle Customer
- 24-03-2021
psychological safety should be the base...
we start from, for all communications. excellent informative and enjoyable, well read book. imagine a world where people care about how others think!
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- Anonymous User
- 23-02-2021
great book with great examples of PS
easy to listen too, varied stories well explained. a must listen to understand PS better
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- Jesper Toft
- 07-10-2020
A complete classic
A clear concept backed by science, concise storytelling and a lot of cases and experience.
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