About the Contributors

DEBORAH ANCONA is the Seley Distinguished Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management and the founder of the MIT Leadership Center.

ELAINE BACKMAN is a research affiliate at the MIT Leadership Center.

TIZIANA CASCIARO is a professor of organizational behavior at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management.

AMY C. EDMONDSON is the Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at Harvard Business School and author of The Fearless Organization (Wiley, 2019).

SYDNEY FINKELSTEIN is the Steven Roth Professor of Management and the faculty director of the Center for Leadership at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. His latest book is Superbosses: How Exceptional Leaders Master the ...

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