443. Creating a Culture of Growth

The ONE Thing

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Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers

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🗓️ 11 March 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

You’ve probably heard of the fixed vs. growth mindset. But did you know it applies to whole organizations, not just individual people? And, just like with individuals, there are certain things you can do to change, improve, and support an organization’s mindset. Today, Dr. Mary C. Murphy, a protege of Carol Dweck and an esteemed psychology researcher in her own right, takes us through her newest book, “Cultures of Growth.”

Business organizations are full of mindset triggers– situations that shift individuals’ mindset to be more fixed-oriented than growth-oriented. Evaluations, high effort assignments, and feedback can easily create fixed mindset thoughts of “I’m terrible” or “I’m great” instead of “What can I continue to get better.” Dr. Murphy discusses how leaders, and even non-leaders, can purposefully frame these situations to prevent a slide into a fixed-mindset and create an overall culture that supports growth mindsets.

This episode is jam-packed with neuroscience research, actionable tips, and “aha” moments. Dr. Murphy really puts on a masterclass for us. We hope you get as much out of it as we did.

Check out Dr. Mary C. Murphy’s book, "Cultures of Growth," today. In a world where success seems reserved for a chosen few, Cultures of Growth unveils a radically different approach to creating organizations that inspire learning, growth, and success at all levels.

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We talk about:

Misconceptions about mindsets
Common mindset triggers
The difference between Cultures of Genius and Cultures of Growth
How Cultures of Genius are especially growth-stifling for LGBTQIA people, women, people with disabilities, and people of color.
How individuals can play a role in creating an organizational growth mindset

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0:00.0	Hey everybody welcome back to the one thing podcast I'm Chris Dixon and I'm
0:08.6	Mickey Miller and today we had Dr Mary Murphy on the podcast today and I really enjoyed this
0:15.0	conversation. It was great to revisit kind of a classic concept in a modern
0:19.6	application which is the fixed versus growth mindset and she really did a great job at reframing
0:24.8	how this looks organizationally and culturally and the cultures of growth and
0:28.9	growth mindset I think it's great because you can shift your own individual perspective from fixed to growth,
0:35.2	but then how can you influence this amongst teams and organizations?
0:38.4	And I thought that was really interesting take.
0:42.3	I never really had conceptualized Chris that while we talk so much in business and
0:48.0	an entrepreneurship and in life about a person's mindset that we don't typically consider the organizations can have
0:54.0	mindsets do and I loved her perspective around not only how to identify a whether
0:59.0	an organization has a growth or fixed mindset but also how to improve it, change it, support it over time as well.
1:05.0	I thought that was such an interesting part of her research and I think that as we have
1:09.2	so many entrepreneurs, business owners, executives that listen to this podcast,
1:12.8	it's going to be a really valuable conversation for them.
1:15.1	Yeah, I think it's always a good thing to do
1:17.1	to just check in against yourself and the teams
1:19.8	or the people that you influence around you and see,
1:22.3	are you in a fixed mindset or
1:24.2	are you culturally in a fixed mindset and how can you make those changes to evolve into
1:28.9	a place of growth so you can meet your goals and see them.
1:35.0	Let's go listen to Mary. Hello everyone and welcome back to the One Thing
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