Adam Grant Quotes

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Adam Grant

Profession : Author

Birth : August 13, 1981

If you've ever had a coworker actively interfere with your productivity, try to make you look bad, steal your ideas, or give you false information, you've been the victim of undermining.

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Leaders who master emotions can rob us of our capacities to reason. If their values are out of step with our own, the results can be devastating.

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When medical students focus on helping others, they're able to weather the slings and arrows of long hours and devastating health outcomes: they know their colleagues and patients are depending on them.

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Recognize that dissenting opinions are useful even when they're wrong, and go out of your way to reward them.

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I have lots of micro-goals of trying to get things done, whatever the amount of time available.

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Perhaps gaining power doesn't cause people to act like takers. It simply creates the opportunity for people who think like takers to express themselves.

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From a relationship perspective, givers build deeper and broader connections.

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If you want to find out if someone's a taker, it's not actually that useful to know what they've accomplished. What you want to want to know is how they explain them.

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Negative feedback can make people feel inferior.

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I love discovering compelling new ideas and doing what I can to help spread the word about them.

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Frenemies are worse than enemies, and it's not just in the workplace.

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When young women get called bossy, it's often because they're trying to exercise power without status. It's not a problem that they're being dominant; the backlash arises because they're overstepping their status.

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I want my children to know that we often become resilient for others.

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A resilient culture has a certain amount of resistance embedded in it. Not so much to capsize it, but enough so that it doesn't atrophy.

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If we want girls to receive positive reinforcement for early acts of leadership, let's discourage bossy behavior along with banning bossy labels. That means teaching girls to engage in behaviors that earn admiration before they assert their authority.

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In the eyes of many people, giving doesn't count unless it's completely selfless. In reality, though, giving isn't sustainable when it's completely selfless.

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I spend a lot of my time trying to help leaders build cultures of productive givers.

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If I had the day off and knew everyone else was voting, I wouldn't miss it. It would become a routine part of my responsibility as a citizen - like paying taxes, only less soul crushing.

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When writing 'Give and Take' and 'Originals,' the predominant emotion for me was curiosity.

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To make sense of bossiness, we need to tease apart two fundamental aspects of social hierarchy that are often lumped together: power and status. Power lies in holding a formal position of authority or controlling important resources. Status involves being respected or admired.

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