Is There a Pulitzer Prize for Asking More Questions?

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"There is a Pulitzer Prize waiting to be won by the journalist who can go and discover this conspiracy," she says. "I should try to be curious about all the complexities in the other person's thinking, then hear him recognize that some of the things that he thinks he understands are actually really hard to explain."

As we grapple with pandemic-charged change in business and as a society, we’ve become more fractured, more divisive, and more vulnerable. Adam Grant, best-selling author and professor at the Wharton School, argues that recognizing what we don't know is the key step on the road to insight, competitive advantage, and community peace. In his new book, "Think Again," Grant illuminates why taking a fresh look at our assumptions, about others and about ourselves, is such a powerful tool. His in-the-trenches research – from Silicon Valley's halls of power to the beliefs of anti-vaxxers – provides actionable advice for all of us.

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