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Adam Grant

TED Talk: Adam Grant: The Surprising Habits of Original Thinkers

A person is speaking on a TED stage with a slide titled "The Creative Process," outlining a humorous six-step emotional journey from "This is awesome" to "This is crap" and back to "This is awesome."

How do creative people come up with great ideas? Organizational psychologist Adam Grant studies “originals”: thinkers who dream up new ideas and take action to put them into the world. In this talk, learn three unexpected habits of originals — including embracing failure. “The greatest originals are the ones who…Read More

February 1, 2016   |   Video

Job Titles as Identity Badges: How Self-Reflective Titles Can Reduce Emotional Exhaustion

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Job titles help organizations manage their human capital and have far-reaching implications for employees’ identities. Because titles do not always reflect the unique value that employees bring to their jobs, some organizations have recently experimented with encouraging employees to create their own job titles.…Read More

November 24, 2015   |   Academic Papers

Wharton People Analytics Conference 2015: Keynote Conversation: Interview with Shane Battier

A person seated on a red chair, speaking and gesturing during a presentation. A small table with two bottles of water is beside them.

From the 2015 Wharton People Analytics Conference, two-time NBA Champion Shane Battier speaks with Wharton professor Adam Grant on the role people analytics has played in his basketball career, from giving him a blueprint to guarding Kobe Bryant to utilizing analytics in real-time during game situations.…Read More

June 7, 2015   |   Video

What’s Behind the Surge of Interest in People Analytics?

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Can a data-driven approach to managing people at work help organizations make better HR decisions? Wharton professors Cade Massey and Adam Grant share their insights.

April 10, 2015   |   Video

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