1. Think like a scientist. When you start forming an opinion, resist the temptation to preach, prosecute, or politick. Treat your emerging view as a hunch or a hypothesis and test it with data. Like the entrepreneurs who learned to approach their business strategies as experiments, you’ll maintain the agility to pivot. For a free assessment of your habits of thinking like a preacher, prosecutor, politician, and scientist, visit www.adamgrant.net/quiz.

