The Productivity Bridge: Why Results Permit Groups and Teams to Expect More

Harvard Buisness School Professor and best-selling author Amy Edmondson's research on psychological safety has given leaders a powerful lens for understanding team performance. Edmondson’s well-known 2×2, which shows psychological safety and accountability not as opposing forces, but as necessary partners, clearly illustrates where high performance lives: the Learning Zone. She characterizes it as the optimal environment where teams have both high psychological safety and high accountability.

"The Productivity Bridge" doesn’t compete with that model; it humbly offers additional clarity by explaining how groups and teams can enter the Learning Zone and understand what it takes to stay there.

If you have a few minutes, I invite you to read my latest and final article for CEOWORLD Magazine for 2025 at https://ceoworld.biz/2025/12/20/the-productivity-bridge-why-results-permit-groups-teams-to-expect-more/ If you're not familiar with Edmondson's 2x2, you're in for a treat. If you are, you can tell me whether I have provided additional clarity or added an unnecessary layer of complexity to an already elegant model.