Adam Grant

Adam Grant
Born (1981-08-13) August 13, 1981
Occupation Author, professor
Language English
Nationality U.S.
Alma mater
Genre Motivation, Success, Business, Education, Management, Psychology
Notable works Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drive Our Success (April 9, 2013); Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World (February 2, 2016); TED talk: The Surprising Habits of Original Thinkers (April 1, 2016)
Website
www.adamgrant.net

Adam M. Grant (born August 13, 1981) is an author and a professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He grew up in the suburbs Detroit, Michigan. Grant has been recognized as both the youngest tenured and highest rated professor at the Wharton School.[1]

Academic career

Grant has been Wharton's top-rated professor for five straight years.[2] He has been recognized as one of the world's 25 most influential management thinkers[3] and the world's 40 best business professors under 40.[4] He earned his Ph.D. in organizational psychology from the University of Michigan, completing it in less than three years, and his B.A. from Harvard University, magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa.[5]

Grant is the author of two New York Times bestselling books translated into 35 languages. Originals explores how individuals champion new ideas and leaders fight groupthink; it is a #1 national bestseller and one of Amazon's best books of February 2016. Give and Take examines why helping others drives our success, and was named one of the best books of 2013 by Amazon, Apple, the Financial Times, and The Wall Street Journal—as well as one of Oprah's riveting reads and Harvard Business Review’s ideas that shaped management.

Grant delivered a 2016 TED talk[6] on the surprising habits of original thinkers and was voted the audience's favorite speaker at The Nantucket Project on the success of givers and takers.[7] His New York Times articles on Raising a moral child and How to raise a creative child have each been shared over 300,000 times on social media.

He has earned awards for distinguished scholarly achievement from the Academy of Management, the American Psychological Association, and the National Science Foundation. He has more than 60 publications in leading management and psychology journals, and his pioneering studies have increased performance and reduced burnout among engineers and sales professionals, enhanced call center productivity, and motivated safety behaviors among doctors, nurses and lifeguards.

Hobbies

Grant was an All-American springboard diver.[8] During his college time and afterwards, he used to work as a professional magician.[9]

Awards

Published works

Books

Papers

Grant's publications in leading management and psychology journals include:

References

External links

External audio
Successful Givers, Toxic Takers, and the Life We Spend at Work, On Being, October 22, 2015
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