Adam Grant

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Adam Grant
Organizational psychologist, professor, author

Rethink Decision-Making and Challenge the Status Quo

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.

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Suggested Questions

  • What snags have we run up against in the decision-making process so far? How do you know that we correctly identified the issues?

Insights you can expect from running this flight

  • Frank, nonjudgmental thinking around the decision-making process so far
  • Identification of red flags and shallow decision-making
  • Thorough thought process to ensure no crossed wires and false starts