Amy Edmondson on mistakes in the workplace

In the January 19, 2009 issue, the New York Times business section covered one of our favorite subjects, as part of its "Career Couch" series: "Making the Most of Your Workplace Mistakes." Even better, they interviewed an important researcher on this subject: Amy Edmondson of Harvard Business School (discussed many times on my blog, including here and here).

Here's my favorite quote from the article:

In any job that requires continuing thought and judgment, we need to be “aware of the huge potential of things to go wrong,” Professor Edmondson said, because “we all can handle only so much cognitively at a time.”