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Adam Grant
American
Author
Born:
Aug 13
,
1981
About
Believe
People
Time
You
Your
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Procrastinating is a vice when it comes to productivity, but it can be a virtue for creativity.
Adam Grant
Creativity
Virtue
Vice
Productivity
In the conversation about women in leadership, male voices are noticeably absent.
Adam Grant
Leadership
Conversation
Women
About
Absent
Voices
Male
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.
Adam Grant
Life
Work
Man
Woman
Will
Responsibility
Half
Evidence
Though
Only
Bear
Never
True
Feel
Like
Know
Affect
Psychologist
Dynamics
Us
Organizational
Bring
When you're good at controlling your own emotions, you can disguise your true feelings. When you know what others are feeling, you can tug at their heartstrings and motivate them to act against their own best interests.
Adam Grant
Best
Good
You
Emotions
Disguise
Feeling
Feelings
Own
Controlling
Others
Best Interests
True
Know
Motivate
Tug
Against
Them
Interests
Act
Your
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.
Adam Grant
Emotions
Values
Master
Own
Our
Out
Results
Devastating
Step
Leaders
Rob
Capacities
Us
Reason
Who
I spend a lot of my time trying to help leaders build cultures of productive givers.
Adam Grant
Time
Build
Spend
Givers
My Time
Leaders
Lot
Cultures
Trying
Productive
Help
Authenticity is a virtue. But just as you can have too little authenticity, you can also have too much.
Adam Grant
You
Too Much
Too
Virtue
Also
Authenticity
Just
Little
Much
Negative feedback can make people feel inferior.
Adam Grant
People
Feedback
Negative
Feel
Make
Inferior
I love discovering compelling new ideas and doing what I can to help spread the word about them.
Adam Grant
Love
Word
About
New
Ideas
New Ideas
Spread
Doing
Discovering
Them
Help
Compelling
Being a giver is not about saying yes to all of the people all of the time to all of the requests.
Adam Grant
Saying
Time
People
About
Giver
Yes
Being
Requests
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.
Adam Grant
Eyes
Reality
People
Giving
Unless
Though
Count
Selfless
Sustainable
Many
If you don't hire originals, you run the risk of people disagreeing but not voicing their dissent.
Adam Grant
You
People
Dissent
Run
Risk
Hire
Originals
I want my children to know that we often become resilient for others.
Adam Grant
Become
Others
Know
Often
Children
Want
Resilient
Kids who evolve into creative adults tend to have a strong moral compass.
Adam Grant
Creative
Strong
Kids
Evolve
Moral
Moral Compass
Tend
Adult
Who
Compass
I try to get as close as I can to cleaning out my inbox every night.
Adam Grant
Cleaning
Try
Every
Out
Close
Get
Every Night
Night
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.
Adam Grant
Time
Unfinished
Long
Think
Else
Emails
Response
About
Something
Something Else
Purposely
Onto
Leave
Lot
Bunch
Move
Them
Really
Actually
Things
Start
Drafts
Need
People often believe that character causes action, but when it comes to producing moral children, we need to remember that action also shapes character.
Adam Grant
Character
People
Remember
Action
Believe
Moral
Shapes
Also
Causes
Often
Children
Producing
Need
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.
Adam Grant
Positive
Leadership
Behavior
Girl
Before
Earn
Admiration
Bossy
Along
Discourage
Labels
Authority
Behaviors
Want
Banning
Engage
Means
Teaching
Assert
Acts
Reinforcement
Receive
Early
To get real diversity of thought, you need to find the people who genuinely hold different views and invite them into the conversation.
Adam Grant
You
Conversation
People
Thought
Diversity
Find
Invite
Genuinely
Real
Get
Different
Hold
Them
Views
Who
Need
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.
Adam Grant
Time
You
Big
Before
Few
Panic
Months
Feel
Term
Hours
Know
Deadline
Yes
Done
Just
Anything
Actual
Procrastination gives you time to consider divergent ideas, to think in nonlinear ways, to make unexpected leaps.
Adam Grant
Time
You
Procrastination
Think
Consider
Ways
Divergent
Gives
Ideas
Leaps
Make
Nonlinear
Unexpected
Power frees us from the chains of conformity.
Adam Grant
Power
Conformity
Us
Chains
I believe that the most meaningful way to succeed is to help other people succeed.
Adam Grant
People
Believe
Other
Way
Most
Succeed
Meaningful
Meaningful Way
Help
Some of the greatest moments in human history were fueled by emotional intelligence.
Adam Grant
History
Intelligence
Some
Emotional
Emotional Intelligence
Greatest
Were
Human
Fueled
Human History
Moments
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