Adam Grant from the Wharton School of Business is an award winning author and psychologist. He sat down with Kristen Scholer at the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses Summit to discuss lessons on leadership.
One of the mistakes is that they say they look for culture fit. he said culture fit can actually destroy a company. Grant said this is because it ends up weeding diversity of thought and you fall into “group think.”
Grant said that putting people into rooms alone to brainstorm is more effective than group brainstorming sessions. He said this is because extroverts dominate the conversation and once the most powerful person gets excited about the idea, everyone jumps on the bandwagon.
Grant has a podcast coming out at the end of February called WorkLife. He says people spend about a quarter of their life at work. He adds that it turns out your co-workers know you better than you know yourself.
Revelers will still ring in the new year in New York’s Times Square next week, there just won’t be as many as usual under new COVID-19 restrictions
Cheddar recommends holiday TV specials, "The Best Man Holiday," "The Family Stone," and "Miracle on 34th Street."
The ruler of Dubai has been ordered to pay his ex-wife and their children close to 550 million pounds ($730 million).
While calls for more crypto education are common in an industry that is often explaining itself, the idea that everyone should be learning more about crypto is beginning to spread.
Carlo and Baker cover the heartening news on the Covid front ahead of the holiday, plus President Biden punting student loan repayments again, a new space telescope and Love, Hate, Ate: Christmas Eve Eve Edition!
The boys discuss President Biden's plans to send out free rapid tests as the testing supply chain starts to buckle ahead of the holidays. Also, why aren't Americans having more babies, and The Matrix returns.
This year, consumers might not be as surprised by what's under their trees as by the trees themselves. Despite a tighter market for trees, Stew Leonard's was able to secure its entire stock of Christmas trees from a supplier in Quebec. But some prices jumped this year as a result of increased costs for shipping and labor amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Toys "R" Us opened its U.S. flagship location in American Dream, a megamall based in East Rutherford, N.J., on Tuesday.
While there are many places where you can buy weed, there are very few places where you can publicly smoke it. One Denver business owner is looking to change that. The Patterson Inn was recently the first, and only, business to apply for the newly available hospitality license. Natalie Fertig, cannabis policy reporter at Politico, joins Cheddar News to discuss the future of the cannabis industry.
Cheddar recaps its top five explainer videos of 2021.
