People often believe that character causes action, but when it comes to producing moral children, we need to remember that action also shapes character. Adam Grant Read Quote
If you want to find out if someone’s a taker, it’s not actually that useful to know what they’ve accomplished. What you want to want to know is how they explain them. Adam Grant Read Quote
You want people who choose to follow because they genuinely believe in ideas, not because they’re afraid to be punished if they don’t. For startups, there’s so much pivoting that’s required that if you have a bunch of sheep, you’re in bad shape. Adam Grant Read Quote
A resilient culture has a certain amount of resistance embedded in it. Not so much to capsize it, but enough so that it doesn’t atrophy. Adam Grant Read Quote
Being a magician taught me how powerful the element of surprise can be. In each book, I’ve tried to work that in – an unexpected twist in a story that reveals an insight, a counter intuitive study that turns your beliefs upside-down. Adam Grant Read Quote
When people are depending on us, we end up finding strength we didn’t know we had. Adam Grant Read Quote
I start a lot of things and purposely leave them unfinished. When I have a bunch of really long emails, and I need time to think about the response, I’ll actually start replying, leave them as drafts, and move onto something else mid-sentence. Adam Grant Read Quote
I have lots of micro-goals of trying to get things done, whatever the amount of time available. Adam Grant Read Quote
