Rapid Response: Why we need to think again, w/Adam Grant
Masters of Scale
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4.6 • 4.4K Ratings
🗓️ 4 February 2021
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
As we grapple with pandemic-charged change in business and as a society, we’ve become more fractured, more divisive, and more vulnerable. Adam Grant, best-selling author and professor at the Wharton School, argues that recognizing what we don't know is the key step on the road to insight, competitive advantage, and community peace. In his new book, "Think Again," Grant illuminates why taking a fresh look at our assumptions, about others and about ourselves, is such a powerful tool. His in-the-trenches research – from Silicon Valley's halls of power to the beliefs of anti-vaxxers – provides actionable advice for all of us.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, it's Bob. |
| 0:02.2 | Today we're re-releasing our Rapid Response episode with Wharton Professor and Best Selling |
| 0:07.3 | Author Adam Grant from 2021. |
| 0:11.6 | Adam offers some timeless lessons that they're particularly relevant right now about the |
| 0:16.6 | importance of taking a fresh look at your assumptions, especially in times of uncertainty. |
| 0:22.8 | He cites fascinating research about how overconfidence can blind us and why founders are prone |
| 0:28.1 | to fall victim to this trap. |
| 0:30.6 | It's an eye-opening explanation of why being open to learning is so important, even in post-pandemic |
| 0:36.2 | circumstances and the specific tactics we can all use in pursuing that goal. |
| 0:42.6 | Let's get to it. |
| 0:45.6 | It is remarkable how many visions and strategies and areas of expertise were developed for a |
| 0:52.6 | world that doesn't exist anymore. |
| 0:55.2 | Anyways, 2020 was a year of forced rethinking for a lot of us. |
| 0:59.6 | My hope is that in 2021 and beyond, we'll be more proactive and deliberate about rethinking |
| 1:05.4 | things that we haven't been pushed to question yet because we all have assumptions and ideas |
| 1:10.6 | that either never made sense or no longer made sense in the world around us evolves. |
| 1:16.7 | I think almost everything in life is more complex than it seems at first blush. |
| 1:22.0 | The number of topics that were actually knowledgeable enough about to call ourselves expert is so |
| 1:28.5 | much smaller than the number of topics that we feel comfortable just blasting and broadcasting |
| 1:34.4 | our opinions around. |
| 1:35.4 | The little more humility is in order. |
| 1:38.1 | There's also, for many people, a sense of new possibilities, that's not to say that |
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