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Originals

By: Adam Grant, Sheryl Sandberg - foreword
Narrated by: Fred Sanders
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Summary

The New York Times best-selling author examines how people can drive creative, moral and organisational progress - and how leaders can encourage originality in their organisations.

How can we originate new ideas, policies and practices without risking it all? Adam Grant shows how to improve the world by championing novel ideas and values that go against the grain, battling conformity and bucking outdated traditions.

Using surprising studies and stories spanning business, politics, sports and entertainment, Grant explores how to recognize a good idea, speak up without getting silenced, build a coalition of allies, choose the right time to act and manage fear and doubt. Parents will learn how to nurture originality in children, and leaders will discover how to fight groupthink to build cultures that welcome dissent.

Told through dazzling case studies of people going against the grain, you'll encounter an entrepreneur who pitches the reasons not to invest, a woman at Apple who challenged Steve Jobs from three levels below, an analyst who challenged secrecy at the CIA, a billionaire financial wizard who fires employees who don't criticize him and the TV executive who saved Seinfeld from the cutting room floor. Originals will give you groundbreaking insights about rejecting conformity and how to change the world.

©2016 Adam Grant (P)2016 Random House AudioBooks
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" Originals is one of the most important and captivating books I have ever read, full of surprising and powerful ideas. It will not only change the way you see the world; it might just change the way you live your life. And it could very well inspire you to change your world." (Sheryl Sandberg, best-selling author of Lean In)

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love it

The book changes my perceptions on many issues and encourage me to challenge the old believe

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Very informative and thorough

What I like about the book and the author in general is that their argument is always backed up by research studies and it has many anecdotal evidences. The book also gives you somewhat practical guide to how to change your mindset into originality and original ideas. I think you must take notes and apply yourself if you are going to read this book to really reap its value.

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Great intriguing book

Chapters are a bit off, other than that, 10/10 went in not knowing what expect, had my mind blown twice midway through

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Great and different

For those struggling to lead. This book actual delves into peoples drives. Brilliant and extremelt engaging all the time.

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Truly valuable information - rethink how to go about things

I found this book to be really valuable in stimulating thinking and learning different approaches for dealing with common important situations.
It gives glean examples with the usual approach and the suggested alternative approach and explains why it is likely to achieve better results, including experimental or direct evidence in many cases.
It covers a lot, so I will be re listening several times to take it all in.

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Best avoided by Sheep - and the followers of sheep

This book is simply extraordinary. It delivers a continual stream of practical insights that will enormously enhance your understanding of what influences people and particularly what factors lead to the creation of those notable individuals who leave an indelible and unique imprint upon the world. I know that I will be recommending it to scores of peers in the following months.

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Full of powerful insights and techniques

Full of great stories and examples of powerful minds. I have implied a lot of the techniques I picked up from this book in my day to day life and it has helped me be more productive and improve relationships in and out of the workplace.

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Excellent book

Great narration. Packed full of interesting and useful gems. Highly recommended. I learnt a lot from this book.

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Must Listen

Will start with the negative and there isn't much of it. The pronunciation of some words is very off for me.

Other than that I have deeply enjoyed this book, as it wasn't unnecessarily repetitive like some other books in the genre. I will likely listen to it again. The majority of the points are well evidenced and backed up with memorable examples.

Give it a listen and/or a read.

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great book and eye opening

loved the book, made me really rethinky own opinions and views. I will be listening to it again

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