Overall, people are about twice as likely to seek information that supports their own point of view as they are to consider an opposing idea.19.
If you have never failed at anything, then you haven’t been trying hard enough, aren’t very imaginative, or have had such extraordinarily good luck that you have come to believe you are invincible.
For good ideas and true innovation, you need human interaction, conflict, argument, debate.
I don’t think you ever know anyone until you see them in action.
Companies don’t have ideas. Only people do. And what motivates people are the bonds of loyalty and trust they develop around each other.
As long as they are well-intentioned, mistakes are not a matter for shame but for learning.
A fantastic model of collaboration: thinking partners who aren’t echo chambers.
Bosses and leaders everywhere should cherish the people who bring them bad news, disappointing data or hard problems.