“I spend a lot of my time trying to help leaders build cultures of prod...” — Adam Grant Quote

I spend a lot of my time trying to help leaders build cultures of productive givers.

When making decisions about people, stop confusing experience with evidence. Just as owning a car doesn't make you an expert on engines, having a brain doesn't mean you understand psychology.

If you've ever had a coworker actively interfere with your productivity, try to make you look bad, steal your ideas, or give you false information, you've been the victim of undermining.

Once people take ownership over the decision to receive feedback, they're less defensive about it.

Being a magician taught me how powerful the element of surprise can be. In each book, I've tried to work that in - an unexpected twist in a story that reveals an insight, a counter intuitive study that turns your beliefs upside-down.

I grew up with all cultures in the world.

New Orleans has a unique history as a great melting pot of all kinds of cultures, and that manifests itself now through the food, the music, and the kinds of people who live there.

I respect other religions and other cultures.

It's wonderful to learn about new cultures and to be able to travel easily to so many countries.

I love traveling and seeing new things, learning the histories of different cultures. But I've always wanted to go to the Galapagos to see the giant turtles.