Stay Risky: Psychological Safety and Learning From Failure

Podcast: 40% Better - Engineering Leadership · Bill

Opublikowano: 2026-10-30

Leaders say failure is a learning opportunity. Their teams watch what they actually do when something breaks. Rachel Franco, founder of Fail Smarter, spent years in innovation enablement at Optum and researched the barriers leaders face in learning from failure. She explains what makes it truly safe to fail, how to measure psychological safety instead of guessing, and how to use innovation tools to turn failures into new solutions. Bill shares how he got quiet engineers to speak up by asking the loudest voices to sit out for six months. ...