Adam Grant
21 statements across 2 episodes · 10 bullish · 3 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Aug 19, 2021 by Adam Grant · said 9 times in 7 episodes since 2020 · across every show →
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- Logic: Logic & Chris Zarou (2018)
- Live From The HIBT Summit: Gary Vaynerchuk
- Live From HIBT Summit: Payal Kadakia, Tristan Walker, and Perry Chen on Innovation
- Live From The HIBT Summit: Cynt Marshall, Chieh Huang, and Sadie Lincoln on Leadership
- Pipcorn: Jennifer and Jeff Martin
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2020 1 mention in 1 episode
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Aug 19, 2021
Aug 19, 2021 positive
Grant: Founders move to being right faster by quickly admitting error
“I think one of the most basic truths of entrepreneurship, which is overlooked by almost every founder I've ever worked with or advised, is that the faster you are to recognize when you're wrong, the faster you can move toward being right.”
Aug 19, 2021
Adam Grant: Schedule career checkups biannually to avoid analysis paralysis
“Schedule a career checkup put it in your calendar. Don't do it every day because then you're going to be stuck in analysis paralysis and you will never engage in that job. ... But if you do it twice a year, it's a great moment to pause and reflect and ask, Hav…”
Aug 19, 2021 positive
Grant: Managers sharing critical feedback out loud increases team psychological safety
“And one of the things we've studied is we've asked leaders and managers to actually share their own performance reviews with their teams, or to talk about some of the critical feedback they've received in the past, and how they're working to grow in those area…”
Aug 19, 2021 negative
Aug 19, 2021
Grant: I send self-deprecating emails whenever I am proven wrong
“And ever since then I have tried to do something whenever I find out that I might have been wrong. I write an email to someone, I just did this the day before yesterday and it says the subject line is, you were right, I was wrong, and then I go on to quote Hap…”
Aug 19, 2021 positive
Grant: Attention management drives productivity better than time management
“So I think that what I've tried to shift to is From time management to attention management. To say that the one thing I can really control is what I focus on. And I like to start every week with the people and projects that matter to me. And that way, when I'…”
Aug 19, 2021
Grant: Framing policies as testable hypotheses prevents mutiny during business pivots
“That's a hypothesis. It's a hypothesis. It might be true. It might be false. Let's go and test it. And if it turns out that I'm wrong, I would love your feedback on other ways that we can value agents in a way that the industry just hasn't before. Before. And …”
Aug 19, 2021 positive
Grant: Founders trained to think scientifically generated 40x more revenue
“Over the next year, on average, the entrepreneurs who had been trained to think like scientists, randomly assigned, brought in more than 40 times the revenue of the control group. That is a staggering effect. And the major mechanism behind it is they were more…”
Aug 19, 2021 positive
Adam Grant: Reoccurring organic ideas signal concepts worth developing
“Every once in a while, what I notice is I've had the same idea three or four times, and I didn't even remember it. And when I got excited about the same idea in, you know, different points in my life it signals to me that there's something interesting and wort…”
Aug 19, 2021 positive
Aug 19, 2021
Aug 19, 2021 negative
Grant: Independent idea generation produces more and better ideas than group brainstorming
“We have over 40 years of evidence that if you had a group of people, let's say five, brainstorming together, if instead you had let them come up with ideas independently, you get more ideas and also better ideas on average.”
Aug 19, 2021 positive
Grant: Delaying difficult tasks fosters incubation and enhances creative insight
“In this research that Jihei Shin and I did, we found consistently that if you were putting off a task because it was hard and you hadn't figured it out yet, that that opened up opportunities to incubate. You were more likely to access remote knowledge. You wer…”
Mar 21, 2024 positive
Grant: Block Promotions for Staff Who Hoard Knowledge or Refuse Mentorship
“Well, I think the first thing you do is you disincentivize the worst taking behaviors. So you make it very clear that people cannot get promoted if they hoard knowledge, if they dump grunt work on others, if they refuse to mentor junior people.”
Mar 21, 2024 positive
Mar 21, 2024
Mar 21, 2024
Grant: Focusing on Making Your Children Proud Unlocks Your Hidden Potential
“If instead you think about making your kids proud, it turns you toward realizing your hidden potential. And it also reminds you that part of that is, you know, is not just the success that you achieve, it's also the contributions that you make.”
Mar 21, 2024 negative
Mar 21, 2024
Grant: Resilient Founders Invest Ego in Future Growth Over Present Comfort
“I think the difference is that the ones who especially manage to have repeat success and bounce back and forward from failure and keep getting better are the ones who invest their egos in their future growth as opposed to their present comfort.”