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What one thing do the highest-performing organizations have in common?

The smartest people are constantly revising their understanding, reconsidering a problem they thought they’d already solved. They’re open to new points of view, new information, new ideas, contradictions, and challenges to their own way of thinking. -- Jeff Bezos

We need to include a wide range of opinions and perspectives in our thinking and decision making. In every meeting, don’t just listen – make it possible for others to speak so that everyone’s ideas come through. Inclusiveness will help us become open to learning about our own biases and changing our behaviors so we can tap into the collective power of everyone in the company. As a result, our ideas will be better, our products will be better, and our customers will be better served. -- Satya Nadella

You must become good at destroying your own best-loved and hardest-won ideas. If you can get really good at destroying your own wrong ideas, that is a great gift. -- Charlie Munger

True open-mindedness is an entirely different mind-set … It demands that you get over your ego-driven desire to have whatever answer you happen to have in your head be right. -- Ray Dalio

You want someone who is stubborn yet open-minded. You want someone who is dedicated but when they get new data is able to change their mind – but not too often … [I]t’s really hard to tell in a short period. We get tricked all the time and agonize about the mistakes we’ve made. -- Sam Altman

Changing your behavior in the face of changing information is always hard. But when people are doing well, they don’t want to change. They choose to ignore the discordant notes and the tunes you are hearing. They feel threatened by bad news and dread the uncertainty of change and the hard work it demands. This tendency makes them passive and rigid at the very moment they should be active and flexible. -- Stephen A. Schwarzman

You have to be ruthlessly open-minded and constantly willing to reexamine your assumptions. You have to take the ego out of ideas, which is a very hard thing to do. -- Marc Andreessen

What the human being is best at doing is interpreting all new information so that their prior conclusions remain intact. -- Warren Buffett

Much of the time [the conscious System 2] acts as a spokesperson for [the unconscious, intuitive] System 1. System 1 makes suggestions, and System 2 explains or rationalizes them. -- Daniel Kahneman

In the case of any person whose judgment is really deserving of confidence, how has it become so? Because he has kept his mind open to criticism of his opinions and conduct. Because it has been his practice to listen to all that could be said against him; to profit by as much of it as was just, and expound to himself … the fallacy of what was fallacious. -- John Stuart Mill

Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. -- George Bernard Shaw