Adam Grant Quotes

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Adam Grant

Profession : Author

Birth : August 13, 1981

If you don't hire originals, you run the risk of people disagreeing but not voicing their dissent.

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It's true that every leader needs followers. We can't all be nonconformists at every moment, but conformity is dangerous - especially for an entity in formation.

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For women to achieve equal representation in leadership roles, it's important that they have the backing of men as well as women.

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When it comes to landing a good job, many people focus on the role. Although finding the right title, position, and salary is important, there's another consideration that matters just as much: culture.

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Tweeting has taught me the discipline to say more with fewer words.

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Takers are self-serving in their interactions. It's all about what can you do for me.

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As a man, it is true that I will never know what it is like to be a woman. As an organizational psychologist, though, I feel a responsibility to bring evidence to bear on dynamics of work life that affect all of us, not only half of us.

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We all have thoughts and feelings that we believe are fundamental to our lives but that are better left unspoken.

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When people are depending on us, we end up finding strength we didn't know we had.

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When you procrastinate, you're more likely to let your mind wander. That gives you a better chance of stumbling onto the unusual and spotting unexpected patterns.

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Complex tasks are often better handled in the back of our mind, and that's often true of creative tasks - when you have something complex to deal with in writing or research or responding to an email. I'll start working, put it aside, and sometimes I'll wake up the next morning with a solution, or I'll find one when I exercise.

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One of the signs of a bad coworker is a pattern of persistent undermining - intentionally hindering a colleague's success, reputation, or relationships.

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In life, there's no such thing as an unmitigated good.

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Authenticity is a virtue. But just as you can have too little authenticity, you can also have too much.

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In college, my idea of a productive day was to start writing at 7 A.M. and not leave my chair until dinnertime.

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I try to get as close as I can to cleaning out my inbox every night.

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We all have original ideas. Even if we don't see ourselves as supercreative or as wild nonconformists, we have insights every day about how the world around us could be better. It might be a better way of running meetings in your office that would be less mind-numbing. It might be a little twist on a product or a service.

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Being a magician taught me how powerful the element of surprise can be. In each book, I've tried to work that in - an unexpected twist in a story that reveals an insight, a counter intuitive study that turns your beliefs upside-down.

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For years, I believed that anything worth doing was worth doing early. In graduate school, I submitted my dissertation two years in advance. In college, I wrote my papers weeks early and finished my thesis four months before the due date. My roommates joked that I had a productive form of obsessive-compulsive disorder.

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