Adam Grant Quotes

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Adam Grant

Profession : Author

Birth : August 13, 1981

In the workplace, many people become helicopter managers, hovering over their employees in a well-intentioned but ill-fated attempt to provide support. These are givers gone awry - people so desperate to help others that they develop a white knight complex and end up causing harm instead.

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When trying to innovate, most people stop after 10-15 possibilities, failing to recognize that their first ideas are usually the most obvious ones.

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Procrastinating is a vice when it comes to productivity, but it can be a virtue for creativity.

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When a salesperson truly cares about you, trust forms, and you're more likely to buy, come back for repeat business, and refer new customers.

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I start a lot of things and purposely leave them unfinished. When I have a bunch of really long emails, and I need time to think about the response, I'll actually start replying, leave them as drafts, and move onto something else mid-sentence.

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In the conversation about women in leadership, male voices are noticeably absent.

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No one wants to hear everything that's in your head. They just want you to live up to what comes out of your mouth.

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The great thing about a culture of givers is that's not a delusion - it's reality.

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As more women 'lean in' and we collectively continue to fight sexism, there's another barrier to progress that hasn't been addressed: Many men who would like to see more women leaders are afraid to speak up about it.

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When making decisions about people, stop confusing experience with evidence. Just as owning a car doesn't make you an expert on engines, having a brain doesn't mean you understand psychology.

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Instead of assuming that emotional intelligence is always useful, we need to think more carefully about where and when it matters.

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Being a giver is not about saying yes to all of the people all of the time to all of the requests.

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The most promising ideas begin from novelty and then add familiarity.

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I'm not a fan of being inauthentic.

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To get important work done, most leaders organize people into teams. They believe that when people collaborate toward a common goal, great things can happen. Yet in reality, the whole is often much less than the sum of the parts.

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By admitting your inadequacies, you show that you're self-aware enough to know your areas for improvement - and secure enough to be open about them.

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Kids who evolve into creative adults tend to have a strong moral compass.

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I can't tell you that if you bring in a bunch of weird and different people, then a bunch of good things will happen. But I can tell you that if you hire a bunch of similar people and promote only the ones who are most similar, a bunch of bad things are likely to happen.

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I'm a precrastinator. Yes, that's an actual term. You know that panic you feel a few hours before a big deadline when you haven't done anything yet? I just feel that a few months ahead of time.

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We have many identities, and we can't be authentic to them all. The best we can do is be sincere in our efforts to earn the values we claim.

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