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Best Teams
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Best Teams

by Marc Woods
October 2025
Intermediate to advanced
320 pages
5h 34m
English
Capstone
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12The Role of Psychological Safety in High-Performing Teams

In 2012, Google was on a mission. They wanted to build the perfect team, and they were willing to invest the time required to understand what it took. So, they embarked on a project. They gave it the code name ‘Aristotle’ because of his quote, ‘The whole is greater than the sum of its parts’. Two years later, after analysing 180 different teams, they were able to distil their findings to one attribute that impacted team performance more than any other: psychological safety.

Harvard Business School Professor Amy Edmondson coined the term ‘team psychological safety’ in the 1990s to describe work environments where candour is expected and where employees can speak up without fear of ...

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