Amy Edmondson
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 3 Aug
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It's so important that we minimize the waste.
It's how much time, how many resources, how much of an investment do you have to make in an unknown outcome to get the information you need to then go forward?
Exactly.
Don't give them 200 living passengers who are depending on their skill to land the plane safely.
Put them in the simulator.
And in fact, you can give them all sorts of incredibly challenging scenarios and see how they do.
Well, in every organization, the research and development group is trying to develop new products and services that will, in the future, be the source of revenue.
And you have experiments.
You say, well, maybe this will work.
Maybe they'll like this.
Maybe this technology will work.
And more often than not, you're having failures.
But you're mitigating the risk of customers failing.
thinking badly of you because you're having a failure, because you're having it in the R&D department, not out in the marketplace.
Thomas Edison was dogged in his pursuit of the inventions that he knew or he believed were possible and he knew could really change lives.
So he's, of course, credited with inventing the incandescent light bulb.
And he tried literally thousands of different materials and techniques to
that one after another, they didn't work.
They had all sorts of problems.
But he didn't give up.
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