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Des Moines Public Library business book pick: “Right Kind of Wrong: The Science of Failing Well,” by Amy Edmondson

Why you should read it: Award-winning Harvard Business School professor and researcher Amy Edmondson’s 2023 bestseller serves as a revolutionary guide to transform how you think about failure. She provides the framework to think, discuss, and practice failure wisely, showing how to minimize “unproductive” failure and maximize the kinds of failure that help a person or organization grow.