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Right Kind of Wrong

Disciplines:
psychology
management
parenting/learning
failure

Summary

Amy Edmondson's 2023 guide to intelligent failure — arguing that failures differ in quality and that the key to organizational learning is distinguishing between intelligent failures (in new territory) and preventable failures (from inattention).

Core Contribution

Creates the failure taxonomy — Right Kind of Wrong distinguishes between intelligent failures (experiments at the frontier of knowledge — valuable), complex failures (multiple factors — analyzable), and basic failures (preventable lapses — costly), providing the most useful framework for organizational learning from mistakes.

Historical Influences

Psychological safety research Chris Argyris

Intellectual Lineage

Amy Edmondson Atria Books

Allied Works

The Fearless Organization Teaming Failing Forward

Contemporaries & Peers

No recorded contemporaries.

Minds Influenced

Management education

Intellectual Posterity

Right Kind of Wrong Failure taxonomy

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