Think Again Flashcards
Who wrote Think Again
Adam Grant
Adam Grant was an original founding member of what?
Harvard’s E-group
Why is rethinking our knowledge and opinions hard?
Seizing and freezing
Why did Wagner dodge survive Mann Gulch
Mental flexibility
Where did Wagner dodge fail
Encouraging flexibility in others
Three tools we cling to A___, I____, H____
Assumptions, instincts, habits
Fourth tool we should cling to is having an
Having an open mind
Companies don’t adapt, what does?
People
Mike Lazardis Invented what but became stagnant
Blackberry
Rethinking is a skill set but also a what?
Mindset
Accelerating pace of change means we need to…
Question our beliefs more readily
Outdated facts are best…
Abandoned
We are swift to recognize when others need to ____ ____
When others need to think again
We are swift to recognize when others need to think again but personally we favor what over what?
Feeling right over being right
We need to develop a habit of forming…
Our own second opinion
As we think and talk we slip into mindsets of what three Ps
Preachers, prosecutors, politicians
We become preachers when own beliefs are in
jeopardy
We become prosecutors when
We see flaws in others reasoning
Goal of being politician
Seeking to win over our audience
Instead of being a preacher, prosecutor, politician, Greenspan should have been what when deciding to invest in Madoff
A scientist
As scientists, we should be aware of the limits of our understanding… By? 3 things
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Doubt what you know, be curious about what you don’t know, update views based on data
Being a scientist is a frame of mind where you are searching for what
truth
100 Italian start ups… One group scientific thinking other group control. Who had more success? Why? Measure what? Make what?
Scientific thinkers, Measure results and make decisions
Ironic that we often praise what two things D____ and C____
Decisiveness and certainty