Quotes from Adam Grant

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

Authenticity means erasing the gap between what you firmly believe inside and what you reveal to the outside world.

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.

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.

I believe that the most meaningful way to succeed is to help other people succeed.

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.

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.

To get real diversity of thought, you need to find the people who genuinely hold different views and invite them into the conversation.

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

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

Creativity is generating ideas that are novel and useful. I define originals as people who go beyond dreaming up the ideas and take initiative to make their visions a reality.

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

The mark of higher education isn't the knowledge you accumulate in your head. It's the skills you gain about how to learn.

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