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## Article 76 — a076

# Amy Edmondson

**Role in the source:** Cited authority (not an author). Harvard Business School professor, the primary scholar associated with **psychological safety** — the belief that one will not be punished or humiliated for speaking up with ideas, questions, concerns, or mistakes.

**Attributed contributions in this vault:**
- Provides the distinction between [[concept-blameworthy-deviance]] (harmful rule-breaking) and [[concept-praiseworthy-exploratory-testing]] (learning at the edge of the known) — the conceptual lens the authors use to argue organizations mislabel shadow AI.
- Her psychological-safety construct is the mediating mechanism in the vault's trust thesis; see [[prereq-psychological-safety-basics]].

**Enrichment / canonical anchor:** Harvard Business School faculty page. Edmondson's work is the cleanest theoretical bridge between this article's 'trust' thesis and established organizational behavior — people share ideas and experiments when they expect not to be punished for visible imperfection.

## Segment 9 — adoption

## Article 36 — a036

# Amy Edmondson

**Role in source:** Cited voice — the scholarly authority behind pillar 5 (experimentation and learning culture).

**Profile:** Harvard Business School professor (the Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management), the leading scholar on **psychological safety**, team learning, and learning from failure. Author of *The Fearless Organization* and *Right Kind of Wrong*; her 'failure archetypes' distinguish **intelligent (praiseworthy) failure** from **blameworthy failure**.

**Attributed contribution in this vault:** Cited for her work on promoting knowledge sharing and learning from both successes and failures — the intellectual foundation for creating a psychologically safe culture of AI experimentation. Her research underpins the fifth pillar of [[framework-5-ways-ai-collaboration]] and the recommended task [[action-introduce-innovation-grants]] (safe, sanctioned space for calculated risk where failure is reframed as learning).

## Related across articles
- [[entity-amy-c-edmondson]]