Adam Grant, 42, is a popular science author, and professor at the prestigious Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania specializing in organizational psychology. Grant was hired by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to serve as an assistant professor of organizational behavior in 2007. After publishing a series of papers in academic journals, he was hired as an associate professor at the Wharton School in 2009, becoming the school’s youngest tenured professor at age 28. He was ranked by students the best professor at the university from 2011 to 2017. In 2023, Grant was named by the Thinkers50 as the #2 most influential management thinker in the world.
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Quote: “To get real diversity of thought, you need to find the people who genuinely hold different views and invite them into the conversation.” | “Creativity is generating ideas that are novel and useful. I define originals as people who go beyond dreaming up the ideas and take initiative to make their visions a reality.”
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