EVERY SPOKEN WORD
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Two core human drives: security vs. adventure
- AGAdam Grant
We all have these two fundamental sets of human needs: security and adventure, change and stability, continuity and innovation. I mean, it, it's all these dualities, and they spring from different sources and they pull us in different directions. But I think you're the one who said this to me once when we did a whole thing about trust, and you said, "The research on trust is inconclusive and it basically operates with a complete definitional vagueness." We don't really know what
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Why “trust” is hard to define (and study)
- AGAdam Grant
is trust. Is it a condition? Is it a feeling? Is it an outcome? [laughs] What exactly is it? And we don't also know if you need to trust in order to take risks, that was Rachel Botsman who added that to our conversation, or if it actually is the act of taking risks that
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Does trust enable risk—or does risk build trust?
- AGAdam Grant
strengthens the trust. I have found this extremely important and useful, and I don't have an answer, but how do I, I... The first thing is really to explain to people the necessity of both. If you just do rules,
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Organizations need both structure and experimentation
- AGAdam Grant
if you just do structure and security and safety and reliability and dependability and predictability and all of that, you will fossilize and die. If you just do change and innovation and dysregulation and ch- and, and risk-taking, et cetera, you may go chaotic. You will dysregulate and go chaotic. Both systems become ineffective and unhealthy, if we wanna use that word. So again, they need each other. On any
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Team complementarity: the skeptics and the explorers
- AGAdam Grant
team, you need both. You need a bunch of people who say, "We can't do this," and you need a bunch of people who say, "Let's go." This is another complementarity. It's essential that they sit at the same table and that they hear each other and that they understand that I focus on this, but I need you because the issue at hand needs this. Most issues are a n- negotiation between risk-taking and risk assessment
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