Growth Mindset: Tool or Weapon?

Has the term “growth mindset” strayed from psychologist Carol Dweck’s original definition? Could some managers (perhaps even unknowingly) be using it as a way to guilt people into doing work they don’t want to do? Zachary Ames joins Andrea to discuss the dark side of the buzz around “growth mindset”. In this podcast as part of Corporate Kool-Aid, they explore how it can be misused as an unfair gauge of an employee’s performance, and why it’s not the key to success, but only a component of it.