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Adam Grant
Born (1981-08-13) August 13, 1981 (age 43)
OccupationAuthor, professor
LanguageEnglish
NationalityU.S.
Alma mater
GenreMotivation, Success, Business, Education, Management, Psychology
Notable worksGive 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

  • Thinkers50 Most Influential Global Management Thinkers (2015)
  • World Economic Forum Young Global Leader (2015–present)
  • New York Times Contributing Opinion Writer (2015–present)
  • Class of 1984 Teaching Award, highest-rated Wharton MBA professor (2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 16)
  • HR's Most Influential International Thinkers (2014, 2015)
  • The American Psychological Association (APA) Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contribution to Applied Psychology (2011)
  • Cummings Scholarly Achievement Award, Academy of Management OB Division (2011)
  • The Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology Distinguished Early Career Contributions Award – Science (2011)
  • Owens Scholarly Achievement Award, Best Publication in I/O Psychology, SIOP (2010)
  • National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (2004–2006)
  • APA Early Research Award, Applied Science (2005)
  • World's 40 Best Business School Professors Under 40, Poets and Quants / Fortune (2011)

Published works

Books

  • 2016: Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World, ISBN 978-0-525-42956-2
  • 2013: Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success, ISBN 978-0-670-02655-5

Papers

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

  • Grant, 2013: Rocking the boat but keeping it steady: The role of emotion regulation in employee voice, Academy of Management Journal
  • Grant, 2013: Rethinking the extraverted sales ideal: The ambivert advantage, Psychological Science 24: 1024–1030.
  • Grant, 2012: Leading with meaning: Beneficiary contact, prosocial impact, and the performance effects of transformational leadership, Academy of Management Journal, 55: 458–476.
  • Grant & Schwartz, 2011: Too much of a good thing: The challenge and opportunity of the inverted-U, Perspectives on Psychological Science, 6: 61-76.
  • Grant, Gino & Hofmann, 2011: Reversing the extraverted leadership advantage: The role of employee proactivity, Academy of Management Journal, 54: 528-550.
  • Grant & Hofmann, 2011: It’s not all about me: Motivating hospital hand hygiene by focusing on patients, Psychological Science, 22: 1494-1499.
  • Grant, & Berry, 2011: The necessity of others is the mother of invention: Intrinsic and prosocial motivations, perspective-taking, and creativity, Academy of Management Journal, 54: 73-96.
  • Grant & Gino, 2010: A little thanks goes a long way: Explaining why gratitude expressions motivate prosocial behavior, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 98: 946-955.
  • Grant & Wade-Benzoni, 2009: The hot and cool of death awareness at work: Mortality cues, aging, and self-protective and prosocial motivations, Academy of Management Review, 34: 600-622.
  • Grant, 2008: The significance of task significance: Job performance effects, relational mechanisms, and boundary conditions, Journal of Applied Psychology, 93: 108-124.
  • Grant, Dutton & Rosso, 2008: Giving commitment: Employee support programs and the prosocial sensemaking process, Academy of Management Journal, 51: 898-918.
  • Grant, Campbell, Chen, Cottone, Lapedis & Lee, 2007: Impact and the art of motivation maintenance: The effects of contact with beneficiaries on persistence behavior, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 103: 53-67.
  • List of Publications

References

  1. ^ Dominus, Susan. "Is Giving the Secret to Getting Ahead?". The New York Times. Retrieved April 2, 2013.
  2. ^ "Wharton Page".
  3. ^ "Thinkers 50".
  4. ^ "Best Professors".
  5. ^ "Adam Grant Website".
  6. ^ "TED Talk".
  7. ^ "Nantucket Project Talk".
  8. ^ Grant was rated 47th in the US among public school male students in 1999. [1]
  9. ^ Adam Grant presenting his new book "Give and Take", while showing great story-telling as well as magician skills on YouTube
External audio
audio icon Successful Givers, Toxic Takers, and the Life We Spend at Work, On Being, October 22, 2015
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