Listen "The Fearless ICU"
Episode Synopsis
The last 24 months have pushed ICU teams around the world to their limits. As we move forward, we need to heal and rebuild our critical care teams. Healthcare more than ever will require ICU teams to perform at the highest levels and to continuously innovate to deliver high-value care to the sickest of the sick. In today’s episode of the podcast, we will discuss the elements of The Fearless ICU. Our guest is Amy Edmondson (@AmyCEdmondson), the Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at the Harvard Business School. For the last two decades, she has studied the elements of high-performing teams in complex environments.
Additional Resources:
Faculty page for Amy Edmondson. A great jumping point to her vast body of work: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/AmyEdmondson
How to turn a group of strangers into a team. TED Talk by Amy Edmondson: https://bit.ly/3vaKwzA
The Fearless Organization. By Amy Edmondson: https://amzn.to/3v7JzrJ
What Google Learned in its Quest to Build the Perfect Team. New York Times: https://nyti.ms/3p84qHk
Implementing New Practices: An Empirical Study of Organizational Learning in Hospital Intensive Care Units. A. Edmondson et al. Management Science 2007: https://bit.ly/3JJXisP
Books Mentioned in this Episode:
Get Rid of the Performance Review! By Samuel Culbert: https://amzn.to/354mYl3
Mindset. By Carol Dweck: https://amzn.to/3LRR2B8
Additional Resources:
Faculty page for Amy Edmondson. A great jumping point to her vast body of work: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/AmyEdmondson
How to turn a group of strangers into a team. TED Talk by Amy Edmondson: https://bit.ly/3vaKwzA
The Fearless Organization. By Amy Edmondson: https://amzn.to/3v7JzrJ
What Google Learned in its Quest to Build the Perfect Team. New York Times: https://nyti.ms/3p84qHk
Implementing New Practices: An Empirical Study of Organizational Learning in Hospital Intensive Care Units. A. Edmondson et al. Management Science 2007: https://bit.ly/3JJXisP
Books Mentioned in this Episode:
Get Rid of the Performance Review! By Samuel Culbert: https://amzn.to/354mYl3
Mindset. By Carol Dweck: https://amzn.to/3LRR2B8
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