Adam Grant
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And it's also a great way to engage people who don't get to do creative work every day in the creative process.
And so I wonder if you could roll out a little tournament where people get to submit ideas.
Oh, that's a good question.
So I actually haven't seen a good innovation tournament in a nonprofit yet.
In the corporate world, you usually get a stake in your idea or you're asked to lead it, which could be a blessing or a curse.
You want the work.
I think in your case, it would be really interesting to then say, OK, if you win the tournament, you get to run the next one.
Don't know.
But you could give them a cameo in a movie.
That's true.
There's another one.
That's true.
Okay, so talk to me about when you think about your international teams on the ground, I think they really probably feel the weight of falling short of their goals in a way that can be very difficult.
I'd love to hear you talk about how you think about building and maintaining the resilience of those teams.
I imagine it's a little different from, oh, man, I didn't get Dead Poets Society.
That was heartbreaking, by the way.
You're projected.
Is there a particular skill that you learned from that that's applicable now to when you face a disappointment or failure in the water space?
You guys ready for some rapid fire questions?
Tell me something you've changed your mind about lately.