Right Kind of Wrong
by Amy C. Edmondson
Three kinds of failure (basic, complex, intelligent), how to prevent the first two and welcome the third, and the self-awareness, situation awareness and system awareness that make failing well possible. Edmondson's most personal and most general book.
Read it if…
you want a mature framework for failure.
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Skip it if…
you want to be told failure is good; it is more careful than that.
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Three things you will actually use
- Basic, complex, intelligent.
- Intelligent failures are in new territory, small, hypothesis-driven.
- Prevent the preventable.
Do this first
Classify your last three failures by type.
Our verdict
Failing well.
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