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Grant: Top Individual Salespeople Actually Tend to Make Worse Sales Managers
“And the better you are at individual sales, the worse you tend to be as a manager. Your teams actually achieve poorer performance.”
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.”
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…”
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…”
Chetty Study: Kindergarten Teacher Experience Predicts Adult Income
“What first got me thinking differently about character was this incredible study by Raj Chetty and colleagues, where they show that you can predict your income in your twenties by just looking at how many years of experience your kindergarten teacher had.”
Grant: Asking for Advice Yields More Actionable Guidance Than Eliciting Feedback
“There's a growing body of evidence showing that if you want specific, useful tips, you should ask for advice rather than feedback.”
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…”
Grant: BlackBerry made only one product when valued over $70B
“It is insane to me that when they were valued at over seventy billion dollars, they still only made one product. They just had a bunch of variations on the Blackberry, which is a great way to, you know, to persist into obsolescence.”