Adam Grant is the youngest professor at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania where he focuses on organizational and managerial psychology. He regularly publishes articles in respected journals and has won numerous awards for research in his field.
He became well-known all over the world thanks his first book Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success which became a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller and is also one of the best books in the field of management and sales recommended by Fortune and Harvard Business Review magazines. It was published in 32 languages, including Czech (Dávat a brát, BizBooks, 2013). In this book Grant explodes the myth that good people who help others without expecting anything in return always end up in last place and suffer from burnout. The very opposite is true.
Original thinkers think differently than you might expect
In February 2016, Adam Grant published his second book entitled Originals: How Non-conformists Move the World. The book deals with how people who think outside the box change ingrained orders and come up with ideas that really change the world. Using studies and stories from the world of business, politics, sports, and entertainment, he shows how to recognize a good idea, win others over to it, implement it, and achieve business success.
Adam Grant gave presentation on the same topic at the recent TED 2016 conference. In his speech entitled The surprising habits of original thinkers, he introduced three unexpected ways of thinking and behavior that are inherent with successful entrepreneurs - procrastination, doubt, and repeated failure.
"The greatest originals are the ones who fail the most, because they're the ones who try the most. You need a lot of bad ideas in order to get a few good ones," says Adam Grant.
TED talk
The full video of Adam Grant's speech is available here. The English interactive transcript is here.
Book
GRANT, ADAM: Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World. New York: Penguin Books, 2016. 336 p.
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