American - Author | August 13, 1981 -
Creativity may be hard to nurture, but it's easy to thwart.
Adam Grant
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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 spend a lot of my time trying to help leaders build cultures of productive givers.
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I'm not a fan of being inauthentic.
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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 life, there's no such thing as an unmitigated good.
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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.
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Negative feedback can make people feel inferior.
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Perhaps gaining power doesn't cause people to act like takers. It simply creates the opportunity for people who think like takers to express themselves.
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To grow, people need to be challenged.
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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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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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