Critical Matters
Critical Matters
Sound Physicians
The Fearless ICU, revisited
50 minutes Posted Jun 25, 2026 at 6:10 pm.
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This episode was originally posted Feb. 24, 2022.
The last 24 months have pushed ICU teams around the world to their limits. As we move forward, we need to heal and rebuild our critical care teams. Healthcare more than ever will require ICU teams to perform at the highest levels and to continuously innovate to deliver high-value care to the sickest of the sick. In this episode, Dr. Sergio Zanotti discusses the elements of The Fearless ICU. He is joined by Amy Edmondson (@AmyCEdmondson), the Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at the Harvard Business School. For the last two decades, she has studied the elements of high-performing teams in complex environments.
Additional Resources:
Faculty page for Amy Edmondson. A great jumping point to her vast body of work. [https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/AmyEdmondson]
How to turn a group of strangers into a team. TED Talk by Amy Edmondson [https://bit.ly/3vaKwzA/]
The Fearless Organization. By Amy Edmondson. [https://amzn.to/3v7JzrJ]
What Google Learned in its Quest to Build the Perfect Team. New York Times. [https://nyti.ms/3p84qHk]
Implementing New Practices: An Empirical Study of Organizational Learning in Hospital Intensive Care Units. A. Edmondson et al. Management Science 2007. [https://bit.ly/3JJXisP]
Books Mentioned in this Episode:
Get Rid of the Performance Review! By Samuel Culbert. [https://amzn.to/354mYl3]
Mindset. By Carol Dweck. [https://amzn.to/3LRR2B8]