The one skill you need to succeed in your career in a turbulent world - by Adam Grant | from Radio Davos
ReThinking
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🗓️ 26 May 2026
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
"We don't live in a stable world anymore. We live in a rapidly changing, turbulent world. And in a dynamic environment, intelligence is not just your ability to think and learn, it's your capacity to rethink and unlearn."
Adam Grant, organizational psychologist, podcaster, and author of the bestseller "Think Again", tells us why we are wrong in many of our assumptions about today's world, and why we would all benefit from tackling our own biases - not least the "I'm-not-biased" bias.
And he explains why the wrong sorts of people too often get promoted or elected to positions of power.
Adam spoke to Radio Davos at the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting 2026 in Davos, Switzerland.
Links:
Think Again: https://adamgrant.net/book/think-again/
Books Adam mentions:
Factfulness: https://www.gapminder.org/factfulness-book/
The Better Angels of Our Nature: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Better_Angels_of_Our_Nature
Not the End of the World: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/145624737-not-the-end-of-the-world
ReThinking is produced by Cosmic Standard. Our Senior Producer is Jessica Glazer, our Engineer is Aja Simpson, our Technical Director is Jacob Winik, and our Executive Producer is Eliza Smith.
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| 0:00.0 | When I was at the 26 World Economic Forum earlier this year, I recorded a few conversations |
| 0:05.2 | that you've been hearing. One with Matt Damon and the CEO of Water.org, one with footballer |
| 0:10.3 | David Beckham, another with musician John Battiste and writer Suleka Jawad. Today I'm bringing |
| 0:15.8 | you something a little different from that event. This is an episode of Radio Davos, where I'm |
| 0:20.4 | the guest, hosted by |
| 0:21.7 | journalist Robin Pomeroy. I hope you enjoy it. We don't live in a stable world anymore. We live |
| 0:28.0 | in a rapidly changing turbulent world. And in a dynamic environment, intelligence is not just |
| 0:34.8 | your ability to think and learn. It's your capacity to rethink and unlearn. |
| 0:38.7 | Welcome to Radio Davos, the podcast on the World Economic Forum. |
| 0:42.0 | He's a best-selling author. |
| 0:43.5 | His name is Adam Grant. |
| 0:45.2 | His books include Think Again. |
| 0:47.2 | On the I'm not biased bias. |
| 0:50.0 | I think of it as the mother of all biases, Robin. |
| 0:52.8 | It's the belief that you might have flaws in your thinking, but I'm neutral, I'm rational. And the danger if that is, the better you are at thinking, often the worst you are at rethinking. What would you hope might happen in the world? What would you like to see? One of my biggest hopes, Robin, is that we change what we value in leadership. |
| 1:12.6 | There's a cluster of personality traits that are called the Dark Triad. |
| 1:16.6 | They are narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy. |
| 1:20.6 | And this is the exact opposite of what we should be looking for in leadership. |
| 1:25.6 | I would love to see that tide turn in 2026. |
| 1:29.3 | I would love for boards of directors when it comes to choosing CEOs, |
| 1:33.3 | voters when it comes to electing politicians, |
| 1:35.3 | to put their foot down and say, |
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