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Originals : how non-conformists move the world / Adam Grant.

Summary:

"How can we originate new ideas, policies, and practices without risking it all? Using surprising studies and stories spanning business, politics, sports, and entertainment, Grant explores how to recognize a good idea, speak up without getting silenced, build a coalition of allies, choose the right time to act, and manage fear and doubt; how parents and teachers can nurture originality in children; and how leaders can fight groupthink to build cultures that welcome dissent. Learn from an entrepreneur who pitches his start-ups by highlighting the reasons not to invest, a woman at Apple who challenged Steve Jobs from three levels below, an analyst who overturned the rule of secrecy at the CIA, a billionaire financial wizard who fires employees for failing to criticize him, and a TV executive who didn't even work in comedy but saved Seinfeld from the cutting-room floor. The payoff is a set of groundbreaking insights about rejecting conformity and improving the status quo." Provided by publisher.

Record details

ISBN: 9780525429562
ISBN: 0525429565
Physical Description: xii, 322 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Publisher: New York, New York : Viking, [2016]
Copyright: ©2016.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-308) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Creative destruction -- Blind inventors and one-eyed inventors -- Out on a limb -- Fools rush in -- Goldilocks and the Trojan horse -- Rebel with a cause -- Rethinking groupthink -- Rocking the boat and keeping it steady.