171 Quotes by Adam Grant

Creativity may be hard to nurture, but it's easy to thwart.

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.

If you don't hire originals, you run the risk of people disagreeing but not voicing their dissent.

The culture of a workplace - an organization's values, norms and practices - has a huge impact on our happiness and success.

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.

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

For women to achieve equal representation in leadership roles, it's important that they have the backing of men as well as women.

I believe that the most meaningful way to succeed is to help other people succeed.

I try to get as close as I can to cleaning out my inbox every night.