Adam Grant - The most promising ideas begin from novelty...

The most promising ideas begin from novelty and then add familiarity.

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Author Profession: Author

Nationality: American

Born: August 13, 1981

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Add, Begin, Familiarity, Ideas, Most, Novelty, Promising, Then

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

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The mark of higher education isn't the knowledge you accumulate in your head. It's the skills you gain about how to learn.

Education Knowledge You Your

It's ironic that when you go through a tragedy, you appreciate more. You realize how fragile life is and that there are so many things to still be thankful for.

Life Thankful You Appreciate

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.

Walk You People Believe

For years, I believed that anything worth doing was worth doing early. In graduate school, I submitted my dissertation two years in advance. In college, I wrote my papers weeks early and finished my thesis four months before the due date. My roommates joked that I had a productive form of obsessive-compulsive disorder.

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If an organization values innovation, you can assume it's safe to speak up with new ideas, leaders will listen, and your voice matters.

You Innovation Ideas Speak

If we want girls to receive positive reinforcement for early acts of leadership, let's discourage bossy behavior along with banning bossy labels. That means teaching girls to engage in behaviors that earn admiration before they assert their authority.

Positive Leadership Behavior Want

To get real diversity of thought, you need to find the people who genuinely hold different views and invite them into the conversation.

You People Diversity Conversation

Bragging about yourself violates norms of modesty and politeness - and if you were really competent, your work would speak for itself.

Work You Yourself Speak

If you want to be a generous giver, you have to watch out for selfish takers.

You Selfish Want Out

When it comes to landing a good job, many people focus on the role. Although finding the right title, position, and salary is important, there's another consideration that matters just as much: culture.

Good Culture People Focus

I'm a precrastinator. Yes, that's an actual term. You know that panic you feel a few hours before a big deadline when you haven't done anything yet? I just feel that a few months ahead of time.

Time You Feel Know

In the workplace, many people become helicopter managers, hovering over their employees in a well-intentioned but ill-fated attempt to provide support. These are givers gone awry - people so desperate to help others that they develop a white knight complex and end up causing harm instead.

People Support Help Others White

By admitting your inadequacies, you show that you're self-aware enough to know your areas for improvement - and secure enough to be open about them.

You Improvement Know Your

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