'Adam Grant' Tag

• Procrastination, doubt, and other good entrepreneurial habits

  September 29, 2016

  Professor of management and psychology Adam Grant released a new book entitled Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World. He’s currently researching the qualities of some of the greatest innovators and original thinkers in history — Grant calls them ‘Originals’. Citing the likes of Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, and Frank Lloyd Wright, Grant found that great innovators […]

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• Givers, Matchers, and Takers

  April 9, 2013

  An interesting conversation I enjoyed last week directed me toward some research by Adam Grant, a tenured professor of organizational psychology at Wharton. Grant’s research, on which he elaborates in his upcoming book, Give and Take, (and encapsulated in a great article by Susan Dominus in the NY Times Magazine), espouses the notion of how […]

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