The Fearless Organization

Amy C. Edmondson

In a knowledge economy, the biggest risk is the thing nobody said. Psychological safety is what makes candor the norm — and it's the leader's job to build it.

The definitive treatment of psychological safety — a shared belief that the team is safe for interpersonal risk-taking — and how leaders build it so people speak up with questions, concerns, mistakes, and half-formed ideas before small problems become disasters.