Adam Grant
Author
Language
English
Description
"We live in a world that's obsessed with talent. We celebrate gifted students in school, natural athletes in sports, and child prodigies in music. But admiring people who start out with innate advantages leads us to overlook the distance we ourselves can travel. We underestimate the range of skills that we can learn and the amount of ground that we can gain. When opportunity doesn't knock, there are ways to build a door. Hidden Potential offers a...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The author examines the critical art of rethinking: learning to question your beliefs and to know what you don't know, which can position you for success at work and happiness at home. The difficulty of rethinking our assumptions is surprisingly common--maybe even fundamentally human. Our ways of thinking become habits that we don't bother to question, and mental laziness leads us to prefer the ease of old routines to the difficulty of new ones....
Author
Language
English
Description
With his previous book, Give and Take, Adam Grant introduced a new paradigm for success. In Originals he again addresses the challenge of improving the world, but now from the perspective of becoming original: choosing to champion novel ideas and values that go against the grain, battle conformity, and buck outdated traditions. How can we originate new ideas, policies, and practices without risking it all? Using surprising studies and stories spanning...
Author
Language
English
Description
"After the sudden death of her husband, Sheryl Sandberg felt certain that she and her children would never feel pure joy again. "I was in 'the void,'" she writes, "a vast emptiness that fills your heart and lungs and restricts your ability to think or even breathe." Her friend Adam Grant, a psychologist at Wharton, told her there are concrete steps people can take to recover and rebound from life-shattering experiences. We are not born with a fixed...
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Lexile measure
AD 540L
Physical Desc
1 volume : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"Leif is a leaf. A worried leaf. It is autumn, and Leif is afraid to fall. "All leaves fall in the fall," say the other leaves. But Leif is determined to find a different way down, and with his friend Laurel, he uses the resources around him to create a net, a kite, a parachute in hopes of softening his landing. The clock is ticking, the wind is blowing. What will happen when a gust of wind pulls Leif from his branch?"--publisher
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Lexile measure
450L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
As Box searches for the right person to reveal the gift he conceals, he encounters children who are grasping, bickering, rough, and otherwise badly behaved.
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
305 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Using his own cutting-edge research as a professor at Wharton Business School, Adam Grant shows how helping others can lead to greater personal success. He demonstrates how smart givers avoid becoming doormats, and why this kind of success has the power to transform not just individuals and groups, but entire organizations and communities.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xvi, 218 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Bill Campbell's mentoring of some of our most successful modern entrepreneurs has helped create well over a trillion dollars in market value. Here Schmidt, Rosenberg and Eagle examine how the man fondly known as Coach Bill built trusting relationships, fostered personal growth, inspired courage, and identified and resolved simmering tensions that inevitably arise in fast-moving environments. The result is a blueprint for forward-thinking business...