Inventium founder Amantha Imber has a podcast named “How I Work”, which explores the tactics different business leaders employ to get stuff done effectively. Imber shared the top tips she has learned from business leaders – including Wharton professor Adam Grant, WordPress Co-founder Matt Mullenweg and former Pinterest president Tim […]
Organizational psychologist Adam Grant says his research shows that introverts and extroverts are equally as effective as leaders. Grant says introverts are better leaders with proactive teams where people are bringing a lot of ideas and taking initiative. Adam Grant is an organizational psychologist and professor at Wharton. Grant went […]
Organizational psychologist Adam Grant says if leaders want to get a sense of an employee’s integrity, they should ask them about their coworkers’ behaviour. Grant says people will project their own motives and behaviour onto others. For example, if you want to know if an employee is stealing, ask them […]
Organizational psychologist Adam Grant says leaders are often bad judges of character. Grant says, “the more senior you get in your career, the better you think you are at judging character,” but he continues to say the opposite is actually true. Grant says leaders often promote “takers” even though “givers” […]
Being slow to respond to email is a sign of an ineffective boss, a study of Microsoft employees found. Plus, it’s downright rude. That’s what the Wharton psychologist Adam Grant argued in a New York Times op-ed article. Still, Grant says you can feel free to ignore emails from people […]
Be sure to ask interview questions about company culture. For example, ask the hiring manager to tell you a story about something that happened at this organisation that wouldn’t happen anywhere else. That’s according to Wharton psychologist Adam Grant. It’s the hiring manager’s job to sell you on their company […]
Among the more impressive interview questions to ask the hiring manager is, “If you could change one thing about this organisation, what would it be?” According to Wharton psychologist Adam Grant, it shows you’re curious and creative. Another expert-approved option is, “How would you score the company on living up […]
Organizational psychologist Adam Grant went to the World Economic Forum in Davos last year to find out what the world’s most influential leaders had to say about power. His learnings have been compiled into an Audible original called “Power Moves.” Grant says leaders are often bad judges of character. He […]
“The easier something is to think of, the more it feels true,” says management and psychology professor Adam Grant. “The harder something is to think of the more false it feels.” “Why Are We All So Stupid?” explores the cognitive biases that lead us to make irrational decisions. This episode […]
Selfish people tend to earn less money and have fewer kids. That’s according to a new study that looked at data on thousands of people across the globe. The catch is that, in most experiments, the highest earners were only moderately altruistic, suggesting that a little selfishness might be beneficial […]
Adam Grant is a professor at Wharton and author of “Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success” and “Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World.” He explains why we are more likely to give better advice to our friends than to ourselves. Grant also outlines the shortcuts we use to […]
Bridgewater Associates is the world’s largest hedge fund. On his new podcast, Wharton professor Adam Grant spoke to some Bridgewater employees about their culture of “radical transparency.” One manager remembered finding out in front of 200 coworkers that he’d been ranked the worst performer. He said it “energised” him by […]
As 2017 draws to a close, LinkedIn asked experts in a range of fields to share the ideas that will make the biggest impact in 2018. Some of the greatest insights had to do with the future of the workplace. CEOs, professors, and entrepreneurs weighed in with predictions about everything […]
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