Quotes by Adam Grant - Page 3

People tend to have one of three 'styles' of interaction. There are takers, who are always trying to serve themselves; matchers, who are always trying to get equal benefit for themselves and others; and givers, who are always trying to help people.
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Always Trying
People
Style
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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.
Adam Grant / Professor
Girl
Leadership
Positive
Admiration
Authority
Behavior
Bossy
Labels
Reinforcement
Acts
Assert
Banning
Discourage
Early
Engage
Receive
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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.
Adam Grant / Professor
Believe
Boundaries
Courtesy
Friendly
Nice
Nice Person
Order
People
Polite
Person
Being
Agreeable
Be Nice
Become
Them
Set
Say
Fail
Give
Walk
Over
Letting
Others
Rarely
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When takers talk about mistakes, they're usually quick to place the blame on other people. Givers are more likely to say 'Here's the mistake I made; I learned the following from it. Here are the steps I'm taking to make sure I don't let people down in the future.'
Adam Grant / Professor
Future
Blame
Following
Made
Mistake
Steps
Sure
Here
Down
Givers
Takers
Learned
Likely
Place
Quick
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I can't tell you that if you bring in a bunch of weird and different people, then a bunch of good things will happen. But I can tell you that if you hire a bunch of similar people and promote only the ones who are most similar, a bunch of bad things are likely to happen.
Adam Grant / Professor
Bad Things
Good Things
Good Weird People
Good Weird Bad
Different People
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Promote
Similar
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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.
Adam Grant / Professor
Authority
Formal
Hierarchy
Position
Resources
Social
Tease
Together
Two
Admired
Apart
Aspects
Controlling
Often
Fundamental
Holding
Involves
Lies
Lumped
Sense
Status
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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.
Adam Grant / Professor
Desperate
Harm
Hovering
Managers
Workplace
Attempt
Awry
Causing
Employees
Givers
Helicopter
Help Others
Well-Intentioned
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The more important argument against grade curves is that they create an atmosphere that's toxic by pitting students against one another. At best, it creates a hypercompetitive culture, and at worst, it sends students the message that the world is a zero-sum game: Your success means my failure.
Adam Grant / Professor
Argument
Atmosphere
Curves
Toxic
Success Best Failure
Creates
Grade
Pitting
Sends
Zero-Sum
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Productive givers focus on acting in the long-term best interests of others, even if it's not pleasant. They have the courage to give the critical feedback we prefer not to hear, but truly need to hear. They offer tough love, knowing that we might like them less, but we'll come to trust and respect them more.
Adam Grant / Professor
Courage
Respect
Trust
Acting
Critical
Feedback
Focus
Long Term
Might
Pleasant
Productive
Tough
Love Trust Best
Come
Prefer
Best Interests
Less
Even
Give
Hear
Interests
Offer
Truly
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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.
Adam Grant / Professor
College
Disorder
Finished
Form
Graduate School
Months
Papers
Productive
School
Thesis
Years
Advance
Before
Believed
Weeks
Date
Due
Early
Graduate
Roommates
Submitted
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We all have original ideas. Even if we don't see ourselves as supercreative or as wild nonconformists, we have insights every day about how the world around us could be better. It might be a better way of running meetings in your office that would be less mind-numbing. It might be a little twist on a product or a service.
Adam Grant / Professor
Meetings
Original Ideas
Better Way
Wild
Insights
Twist
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Complex tasks are often better handled in the back of our mind, and that's often true of creative tasks - when you have something complex to deal with in writing or research or responding to an email. I'll start working, put it aside, and sometimes I'll wake up the next morning with a solution, or I'll find one when I exercise.
Adam Grant / Professor
Creative
Email
Exercise
Mind
Next
Research
Responding
Tasks
Wake Up
Aside
True
Back
Complex
Deal
Often
Working
Handled
Put
Next Morning
Solution
Start
Wake
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This is what I find most magnetic about successful givers: they get to the top without cutting others down, finding ways of expanding the pie that benefit themselves and the people around them. Whereas success is zero-sum in a group of takers, in groups of givers, it may be true that the whole is greater than the sum of the parts.
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Zero
Cutting
Pie
Successful
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Most people believe that great leaders are distinguished by their ability to give compelling answers. This profound book shatters that assumption, showing that the more vital skill is asking the right questions…. Berger poses many fascinating questions, including this one: What if companies had mission questions rather than mission statements? This is a book everyone ought to read—without question.
Adam Grant / Professor
Believe
Book
Skills
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