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Originals: How Non Conformists Change the World
by Adam M. Grant, Sheryl Kara Sandberg
Description:
The New York Times bestselling author determines how people can initiate creative, moral and constructive progress and how leaders can inspire their societies.
How can we create new innovation, policies and performs without endangering it all? Adam Grant demonstrates how to improve the world by advocating novel ideas and ethics that go against the grain, battling conformity and kicking old-fashioned customs.
The book shows how by using amazing studies and stories the society can spread business, politics, sports and entertainment. And also shows how explorer can recognize a good idea, raise voice without getting silenced, build an alliance of allies, pick the accurate time to act and tackle fear and doubt. Parents will learn how to cultivate originality in youngsters and leaders will discover how to fight conspiracy to develop cultures that welcome dissent.
The book has mind boggling case studies of people going against the grain, you’ll meet an entrepreneur who shows the reasons not to invest, a woman at Apple who confronted Steve Jobs from three levels below, an analyst who throw a challenge to secrecy at the CIA, a billionaire financial tycoon who sacks employees who don’t criticize him and the TV executive who saved Seinfeld from the cutting room floor. Originals will provide you groundbreaking visions about rejecting conformity and how to improve the world.
About The Author
Sheryl Kara Sandberg is an American technology executive, social activist and writer. She is the Chief Operating Officer of Facebook.
Adam M. Grant is a writer and a professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Grant has been renowned as both the youngest tenured and high esteemed professor at the Wharton School.
Skryf Review
Good Read
Adam attempts to surprise people with counter intuitive conclusions and insights. Unfortunately, there aren’t many brand new revelations. If you have been reading psychology and behaviour either in books or in a curriculum, you may have come across a lot of content that is given in this book. The truly original parts are where Adam deconstructs ‘groupthink’ and ‘playing the devil’s advocate’. What I take away from this book is that you are never really given easy ‘rules of thumb’ in life. They are rules until they aren’t. The answer to most questions of life is ‘it depends’. This book is definitely worth a read especially if you don’t have a recent MBA from one of the world’s best business schools or if you aren’t particularly updated on organisational behaviour.