Think Again: Creating Higher-Performance Teams

In his latest #1 New York Times bestselling book, Think Again, Adam Grant makes the argument that teams must think as scientists, treating strategy as a hypothesis and their products as an experiment, to take advantage of potential shifts in their business. Doing so favors humility over pride, doubt over uncertainty, curiosity over closure, and leads to more successful outcomes: Adam’s research showed that entrepreneurs that had been taught to think like scientists pivoted more than twice as often, brought in revenue twice as fast, and attracted customers sooner than those who had not. Use this flight, developed with Adam Grant, to push your team to think like scientists and improve outcomes for your business.

In his latest #1 New York Times bestselling book, Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know, Adam Grant makes the argument that your ability to rethink and unlearn matters is far more important than raw intelligence. Rethinking is a skill set, but it’s also a mindset that can help you generate new solutions to old problems and revisit old solutions to new problems. Use this flight, developed with Adam Grant, to accelerate rethinking on your teams and avoid the traps of comfort and complacency that bring about the downfall of so many promising teams.

Adam Grant’s newest New York Times bestselling book Think Again asserts that learning zones are created when psychological safety is combined with process accountability. When people feel free to experiment—and to poke holes in one another’s experiments in service of making them better—they become a challenge network that serves to question assumptions and avoid shallow decision-making. Simply asking “how do you know” at a critical moment in the decision-making process can be the difference between a smooth launch and a botched launch. Use this flight plan, developed with Adam Grant, to rethink your decision-making process so far and push your team to question your assumptions before taking the next step.

In his new #1 New York Times bestselling book Think Again, Adam Grant asserts that in learning cultures, people expand their consideration of success to include processes as well as outcomes. As shown in his Rethinking Scorecard , even if the outcome of a decision is positive, it doesn’t necessarily qualify as a success: if the process was shallow, you were lucky; if the process was deep, you’ve improved and discovered a better practice; if the outcome is negative, it’s a failure only if the decision process was shallow; if the result was negative but you evaluated the decision thoroughly, it was a smart experiment. Use this flight, developed with Adam Grant, to promote a culture of learning within your team and rethink a recent decision-making process.

In his New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling book, Give and Take, Adam Grant explains how the tendency to operate as a giver or a taker has a surprising impact on success. In today's world, success is increasingly dependent on how we interact with others. Whereas takers strive to get as much as possible from others and matchers aim to trade evenly, givers are the rare breed of people who contribute to others without expecting anything in return and they often rise to the top. Creating a culture of giving behavior has the power to transform not just individuals and groups, but entire organizations and communities. Run this flight, developed with Adam Grant, to gather ideas to build a culture of fostering giving behavior and revolutionize your company.

In his book Originals, Adam Grant studies people who he calls “Originals,” or those who not only have new ideas but also execute and champion them. Originals are the people who drive creativity and change in the world, and they’re the people you want to bet on. Use this flight to institute Adam’s research-proven practices and help you champion new ideas, create a space where new ideas can flourish without fear or doubt, and show your team that they are the people you bet on, day in and day out.