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Being a giver is not about saying yes to all of the people all of the time to all of the requests.

~Adam Grant

Topics: About Being Giver People Requests Saying Time Yes

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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

Topics: Admired Apart Aspects Authority Being Controlling Formal Fundamental Hierarchy Holding Important Involves Lies Lumped Make Need Often Position Power Resources Respected Sense Social Status Tease Together Two

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In the eyes of many people, giving doesn't count unless it's completely selfless. In reality, though, giving isn't sustainable when it's completely selfless.

~Adam Grant

Topics: Count Eyes Giving Many People Reality Selfless Sustainable Though Unless

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Successful givers secure their oxygen masks before coming to the assistance of others. Although their motives may be less purely altruistic, their actions prove more altruistic, because they give more.

~Adam Grant

Topics: Actions Although Altruistic Assistance Because Before Coming Give Givers Less Masks May More Motives Others Oxygen Prove Purely Secure Successful

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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

Topics: Accomplished Actually Explain Find How Know Out Someone Them Useful Want You

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

~Adam Grant

Topics: Dissent Hire People Risk Run You

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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

Topics: Afraid Bad Because Believe Bunch Choose Follow Genuinely Ideas Much People Punished Required Shape Sheep Startups Want Who You

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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

Topics: Amount Atrophy Certain Culture Embedded Enough Much Resilient Resistance

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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

Topics: Being Beliefs Book Counter Each Element How Insight Intuitive Magician Me Powerful Reveals Story Study Surprise Taught Tried Turns Twist Unexpected Work Your

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I want my children to know that we often become resilient for others.

~Adam Grant

Topics: Become Children Know Often Others Resilient Want

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: August 13th, 1981

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