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Thought Sparks Wrap Up — November 2021
Dear colleagues,
I am just delighted to share with you that the #1 and #2 slots in the bi-annual Thinkers50 ranking of management thinks have been awarded to Amy Edmondson and myself. Amy and I have been colleagues and friends for many years.
We were both just getting started in our academic careers back in the 1990s. Amy’s work on teams and psychological safety unlocked key ingredients that could have a critical impact on the success — or not — of a given strategy. My work on planning under uncertainty outlined the context in which her ideas take on critical importance for planning to learn. Over the years we’ve been delighted to explore the ways in which our work complements each others’, including why we so often get the importance of appropriately managing failure completely wrong!
What a thrill then to find out on Tuesday the 16th that Amy and I would be sharing adjacent spaces on the Thinkers50 ranking. Further, that so many of my good friends, including Alexander Osterwalder and Yves Pigneur, Scott Anthony, Whitney Johnson, Sanyin Siang, Dorie Clark, and many others have joined the ranking.
As I’ve been doing in 2021, this wrap-up gives you an overview of my weekly Thought Sparks news pieces, intended to do exactly that — spark your thinking!
