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Adam Grant

Professor of Management, Wharton · 4 appearances on the record.

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Adam Grant is an organizational psychologist and professor at the Wharton School. He is the author of Originals: How Nonconformists Move the World and conducts research on workplace dynamics, rethinking cycles, and intellectual humility.

57statements → 16claims → 15claims resolved → 93%fully supported → 3.81/5average certainty → 2.16/5average debate potential → ≈4.5/5argument clarity, estimated → 12said about them ↓

14 supported 1 partly supported 0 contradicted 1 not yet assessed how the 16 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

16 assertions · 3 opinions · 37 insights · 1 disclosure · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 16 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 15 are resolved, 1 is not yet assessed. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Adam argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Encouraging managers to seek feedback fails to create lasting psychological safety
“We found that when we went and encouraged managers to go and ask for feedback, it didn't have a lasting effect on psychological safety.”
Adam Grant Jun 1, 2021 ▶ 22:02 #112 Adam Grant: Rethinking Your Position

Expressed certainty vs assessment result

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96% certainty 4
none yet certainty 5

weighted support: a fully supported claim counts one, a partly supported claim counts half. Each filled bar is clickable and opens exactly those claims; "none yet" means nothing said at that certainty level has resolved yet

How they sound: not measured why? →

We measure speaking style by listening to the audio itself, and a fair number needs at least 2,000 words from one person on tape we have measured. There is too little of Adam Grant on measured tape to publish a rate. This says nothing about how they speak.

Everything Adam Grant said on the Knowledge Project that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Insight
Grant: Expertise develops through communities of practice, not reading books
“You don't develop expertise just by, you know, by reading a book. Cause a lot of the expertise you need isn't written down anywhere yet. It's too early or it's just tacit knowledge where, you know, people in a profession haven't yet even figured out how to art…”
Adam Grant Sep 21, 2017 ▶ 1:02:45 #22 Adam Grant: Givers, Takers, and the Resilient Mind
Insight
Grant: Work-life balance is easier to achieve over weeks or months, not daily
“If you are going to strive for balance, it's much easier to achieve at the week level or the month level.”
Adam Grant Sep 21, 2017 ▶ 1:23:28 #22 Adam Grant: Givers, Takers, and the Resilient Mind
Disclosure
Adam Grant: Write down conditions that would change your tentative opinions
“When he forms a tentative opinion, will actually make a list of the conditions under which he would change his mind. And I've actually started doing this over the past few months because I don't want to get locked into something that was, you know, maybe sort …”
Adam Grant Dec 21, 2021 ▶ 33:04 #127 Best of 2021: Conversations of the Year
Insight
Pride in knowledge triggers confirmation bias and traps people in overconfidence
“The basic idea is we start by being proud of something that we think we know. And that leads us then to feel a lot of conviction. That kind of launches us into confirmation bias, where we look for information that confirms our expectations, as well as desirabi…”
Adam Grant Jun 1, 2021 ▶ 8:02 #112 Adam Grant: Rethinking Your Position
Insight
Listing specific conditions to change opinions prevents locking into unhelpful beliefs
“When he forms a tentative opinion, will actually make a list of the conditions under which he would change his mind. And I've actually started doing this over the past few months because I don't want to get locked into something that was, you know, maybe sort …”
Adam Grant Jun 1, 2021 ▶ 11:31 #112 Adam Grant: Rethinking Your Position
Assertion Supported
Expert negotiators focus far more time on finding common ground
“And the experts they spent far more time planning for and then talking about common ground was the first takeaway.”
Adam Grant Jun 1, 2021 ▶ 38:46 #112 Adam Grant: Rethinking Your Position
Assertion Supported
Expert negotiators ask significantly more genuine questions than average negotiators
“Then a second difference that, that jumped out pretty clearly is the experts asked a lot more questions than the average negotiators. And they weren't leading questions. They were questions motivated by genuine curiosity.”
Adam Grant Jun 1, 2021 ▶ 39:20 #112 Adam Grant: Rethinking Your Position
Assertion Supported
Grant: Over Half of People Identify as Workplace Matchers
“I found that over half of people identify this as their primary interaction style at work where they say, look, I don't want to be too selfish. I don't want to be too generous.”
Adam Grant Sep 21, 2017 ▶ 11:16 #22 Adam Grant: Givers, Takers, and the Resilient Mind
Assertion Not yet assessed · timeframe Sep 2020
Grant: Corning Fellows must author $100M patents and support others' patents
“And one of the first criteria is, are you the first author in a patent that's worth at least a hundred million US dollars?... So we're gonna say there are other criteria too, which include, are you a supporting author on other people's patents?”
Adam Grant Sep 21, 2017 ▶ 16:57 #22 Adam Grant: Givers, Takers, and the Resilient Mind

The other half of the tape: Adam Grant's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 12 times in 8 episodes on the Knowledge Project. every mention, with the transcript →

Who brings them up most Margaret Heffernan 3Todd Simkin 2Ray Dalio 2Neil Pasricha 1Laurie Santos 1Chris Voss 1Charlie Hoehn 1Aaron Dignan 1

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2019 1 mention in 1 episode
2018 4 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
2017 2 mentions in 1 episode

Appearances (4)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
TKP Insights: Learning and Thinking Nov 7, 2023 6m
#127 Best of 2021: Conversations of the Year Dec 21, 2021 6m
#112 Adam Grant: Rethinking Your Position Jun 1, 2021 45m
#22 Adam Grant: Givers, Takers, and the Resilient Mind Sep 21, 2017 1h 2m
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