By: Edward H. Chang, Katherine L. Milkman, Dena M. Gromet, Robert W. Rebele, Cade Massey, Angela L. Duckworth, and Adam M. Grant PNAS Although diversity training is commonplace in organizations, the relative scarcity of field experiments testing its effectiveness leaves ambiguity about whether diversity training improves attitudes and behaviors toward…Read More
Angela Duckworth
Self-Reports Spur Self-Reflection
By Angela Duckworth MIT Sloan Management Review The act of answering survey questions can increase awareness, which opens the door to development. “Know thyself.” — Socrates I’ve been studying grit for 15 years, but the notion that some people stick with things much longer than others is not at all…Read More
Graduating and Looking for Your Passion? Just Be Patient
For all their grandeur and euphoria, graduation ceremonies can be harrowing. Until that momentous day, you’re a student whose job is to do what your teacher asks. Now you have to ask things of yourself — but what?…Read More
Don’t Grade Schools on Grit
The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once observed, “Intelligence plus character — that is the goal of true education.” Evidence has now accumulated in support of King’s proposition: Attributes like self-control predict children’s success in school and beyond. Over the past few years, I’ve seen a groundswell of popular interest in character development.…Read More
Deliberate Practice Spells Success: Why Grittier Competitors Triumph at the National Spelling Bee
The expert performance framework distinguishes between deliberate practice and less effective practice activities. Deliberate practice, operationally defined as studying and memorizing words while alone, better predicted performance in the National Spelling Bee than being quizzed by others or reading for pleasure.…Read More
Wharton People Analytics Conference 2014: Case Studies: Predicting Employee Performance: Dullaghan, Biga, Duckworth, & Wrzesniewski
From the 2015 Wharton People Analytics Conference, case studies on predicting employee performance from Ryan Dullaghan (Manager, People Assessment & Analytics, Jet Blue), Andrew Biga (Director of Talent Acquisition and Assessment, Jet Blue), Angela Duckworth (Associate Professor of Psychology, Wharton) and Amy Wrzesniewski (Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior, Yale School of Management), followed by a Q&A moderated by Wharton’s Deputy Vice Dean of MBA Admissions, Maryellen Reilly Lamb.…Read More
TED Talk: Angela Duckworth; Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverence
Leaving a high-flying job in consulting, Angela Lee Duckworth took a job teaching math to seventh graders in a New York public school. She quickly realized that IQ wasn’t the only thing separating the successful students from those who struggled. Here, she explains her theory of “grit” as a predictor…Read More