This book covers a lot of fundamental social psychology research and a number of compelling cases to demonstrate the different types and effects of failure. There's not a lot of new data here, and while the mostly case-based approach makes for good storytelling I feel like one could probably get the core of this book from one of the HBR pieces Edmondson has written. If you want a wide variety of examples to draw from to bring to a discussion around the importance of failing effectively, though, this book will serve you well.