Humble: Psychological safety during failures is required for innovation
Jez Humble · a16z Podcast | Feedback Loops -- Company Culture, Change, and DevOps · Jan 2, 2019 · at 39:47
Jez Humble, co-author of 'Accelerate', explains how psychological safety enables team risk-taking and organizational novelty.
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“If people don't feel that when things go wrong, they're going to be supported, they're not going to take risks. And then you're not going to get any novelty because novelty by definition involves taking risks.”
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