Smarter Way Of Embracing Failure

Prof. Amy Edmondson, Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management, Harvard Business School

16-Jun-25 09:30

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On this episode of Pinnacle Perspectives, Philip See speaks with Prof. Amy Edmondson, the Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at the Harvard Business School about embracing failure in corporate Malaysia. Drawing from her award-winning book The Right Kind of Wrong, she unpacks the three types of failure and explores how leaders can foster psychological safety even within Asian cultural contexts.

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Produced by: Tun Hizami Hashim

Presented by: Philip See

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Categories: Corporates, managing, the workplace, economy, entrepreneurs, SME

Tags: embracing failure, psychological safety, asian culture,

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