Leadership Greater Hartford features Adam Grant’s “Think Again” for virtual 2022 Lessons in Leadership series
Leadership Greater Hartford’s annual Lessons in Leadership series returns this month and features Adam Grant’s new book Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know.
Each session in the 2022 Lessons in Leadership series will be led by a dynamic presenter and will include engaging break-out room discussions and activities to help put Grant’s ideas into action. The series is free to active, dues-paying members of LGH. Individual sessions are $20 for non-members. To register, visit https://leadershipgh.org/lessons-in-leadership/.
Session One – Thursday, March 3: The What and the Why of Rethinking
With Andre Santiago
Vice President & Chief Program Officer, LGH
Session Two – Wednesday, March 16: Individual Rethinking
With Rosaida Morales Rosario
Rosario & Associates, LGH Board Member
Session Three – Thursday, March 31: Interpersonal Rethinking
With Karen Senteio
Karen Senteio Consulting, LGH Consultant
Session Four – Wednesday, April 13: Collective Rethinking
With Ted Carroll
LGH Consultant & Former President & CEO
About the featured book:
Intelligence is usually seen as the ability to think and learn, but in a rapidly changing world, there’s another set of cognitive skills that might matter more: the ability to rethink and unlearn. In our daily lives, too many of us favor the comfort of conviction over the discomfort of doubt. We listen to opinions that make us feel good, instead of ideas that make us think hard. We see disagreement as a threat to our egos, rather than an opportunity to learn. We surround ourselves with people who agree with our conclusions, when we should be gravitating toward those who challenge our thought process. The result is that our beliefs get brittle long before our bones. Intelligence is no cure, and it can even be a curse: there’s evidence that being good at thinking can make us worse at rethinking. The brighter we are, the blinder to our own limitations we can become.About the featured book:
As an organizational psychologist, Adam Grant is an expert on opening other people’s minds–and our own. As Wharton’s top-rated professor and the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Originals and Give and Take, one of his guiding principles is to argue like he’s right but listen like he’s wrong. With bold ideas and rigorous evidence, he investigates how we can embrace the joy of being wrong, harness the surprising advantages of impostor syndrome, bring nuance to charged conversations, and build schools, workplaces, and communities of lifelong learners. You’ll learn how an international debate champion wins arguments, how a Black musician persuades white supremacists to abandon hate, how a vaccine whisperer convinces concerned parents to immunize their children, and how Adam has coaxed Yankees fans to root for the Red Sox. Think Again reveals that we don’t have to believe everything we think or internalize everything we feel. It’s an invitation to let go of views that are no longer serving us well and prize mental flexibility, humility, and curiosity over foolish consistency. If knowledge is power, knowing what we don’t know is wisdom.