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Adam Grant Quotes

American - Author | August 13, 1981 -

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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Being a nice person is about courtesy: you're friendly, polite, agreeable, and accommodating. When people believe they have to be nice in order to give, they fail to set boundaries, rarely say no, and become pushovers, letting others walk all over them.

Walk People Believe You Person Nice

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

Education Knowledge Higher Education

It's ironic that when you go through a tragedy, you appreciate more. You realize how fragile life is and that there are so many things to still be thankful for.

Life Thankful Appreciate You Tragedy

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

World Believe You Authenticity Gap

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.

Help Others Support People End Help

The opposite of an underminer is a supporter. When colleagues are supportive, they go out of their way to be givers rather than takers, working to enhance our productivity, make us look good, share ideas, and provide timely help.

Good Ideas Colleagues Help Look Go

If you want to be a generous giver, you have to watch out for selfish takers.

Selfish You Want Out Watch Generous

Some people are selfish in all of their relationships. Those people are called sociopaths.

People Selfish Relationships Some

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.

School College Doing Worth Early

If an organization values innovation, you can assume it's safe to speak up with new ideas, leaders will listen, and your voice matters.

Innovation Ideas Organization Speak

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.

Good Best You Feelings Emotions

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