Adam Grant Quotes
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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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To generate creative ideas, it's important to start from an unusual place. But to explain those ideas, they have to be connected to something familiar.
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When you develop a reputation for being responsive and generous, an ever-expanding mountain of requests will come your way.
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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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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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I spend a lot of my time trying to help leaders build cultures of productive givers.
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Power frees us from the chains of conformity.
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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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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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Agreeable people are warm and friendly. They're nice; they're polite. You find a lot of them in Canada.
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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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The culture of a workplace - an organization's values, norms and practices - has a huge impact on our happiness and success.
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I'm not a fan of being inauthentic.
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You want people who choose to follow because they genuinely believe in ideas, not because they're afraid to be punished if they don't. For startups, there's so much pivoting that's required that if you have a bunch of sheep, you're in bad shape.
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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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To get real diversity of thought, you need to find the people who genuinely hold different views and invite them into the conversation.
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Tweeting has taught me the discipline to say more with fewer words.
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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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Procrastinating is a vice when it comes to productivity, but it can be a virtue for creativity.
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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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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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Teams need the opportunity to learn about each other's capabilities and develop productive routines. So once we get the right people on the bus, let's make sure they spend some time driving together.
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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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Takers are self-serving in their interactions. It's all about what can you do for me.