Adam Grant (University of Pennsylvania) - Six Ways to be an ‘Original’
Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (ETL)
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How to Be a Better Manager at Judging New Ideas
Justin Smith: Never judge other people's ideas unless you've been in brainstorming mode first. He says Mark Cuban, Elon Musk and Larry Page all said they were terrified when they had their big ideas but chose to take action anyway. But defensive pessimism turns out to be an effective strategy if you can psych yourself up into the state where you are convinced that you're going to fail on a test or for a new idea.
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