Adam Grant
| Adam Grant | |
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| Born | August 13, 1981 |
| Occupation | Writer, professor |
| Language | English |
| Nationality | U.S. |
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| Genre | Prosocial Motivation, Success, Business, Education, Psychology, Interpersonal Relations, Economics |
| Notable works | Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success (April 9, 2013) |
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giveandtake | |
Adam M. Grant is an author and a professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Grant has been recognized as both the youngest tenured and most highly rated professor at the Wharton School.[1]
Academic career
Grant is the youngest tenured professor at Wharton[2] and a researcher on success, work motivation, and helping and giving behaviors. 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.[3] Prior to Wharton, Grant held positions at University of Michigan as an adjunct professor and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as an assistant professor. In 2012, Grant was the single highest-rated professor at Wharton.
Grant has presented for leaders at organizations such as Google, the NFL, Merck, Pixar, Goldman Sachs, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, The United Nations, The World Economic Forum, and the US Army, the US Navy, and the US Air Force. He writes regularly about work and psychology as a LinkedIn Influencer.
Grant's research has been featured in bestselling books, including Quiet by Susan Cain, Drive and To Sell Is Human by Daniel Pink, and The Happiness Advantage by Shawn Achor, as well as hundreds of media outlets, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Time magazine, USA Today, The Financial Times, Oprah magazine, and the Freakonomics blog.
Hiscall center study has been credited with changing perspectives on workplace motivation.[4] In 2011, Fortune Magazine named him one of the Top 40 Business Professors Under 40.[5] BusinessWeek then named Grant one of their favorite professors in 2012,[6] and Susan Cain cited Grant's research on introverts as one of the 23 biggest ideas of the year.[7]
Published works
Books
- 2016: Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World, ISBN 978-0-525-42956-2
- 2013: Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success, ISBN 978-0-670-02655-5 [8]
Papers
Grant has more than 70 publications in leading management and psychology journals. Among them are:
- Grant, Berg & Cable, 2013: Job titles as identity badges: How self-reflective titles can reduce emotional exhaustion, Academy of Management Journal
- 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.
- Sonenshein, Dutton, Grant, Sutcliffe & Spreitzer, 2013: Growing at work: Employees’ interpretations of progressive self-change in organizations, Organization Science, 24: 552–570.
- Grant, 2012: Leading with meaning: Beneficiary contact, prosocial impact, and the performance effects of transformational leadership, Academy of Management Journal, 55: 458–476.
- Grant, 2012: Giving time, time after time: Work design and sustained employee participation in corporate volunteering, Academy of Management Review, 37: 589–615.
- Grant & Patil, 2012: Challenging the norm of self-interest: Minority influence and transitions to helping norms in work groups, Academy of Management Review, 37: 547–568.
- Grant & Dutton, 2012: Beneficiary or benefactor: The effects of reflecting about receiving versus giving on prosocial behavior, Psychological Science, 23: 1033–1039.
- List of Publications
Awards
- 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)
Hobbies
Grant was an All-American springboard diver.[9] During his college time and afterwards, he used to work as a professional magician.[10]
References
- ↑ Dominus, Susan. "Is Giving the Secret to Getting Ahead?". The New York Times. Retrieved April 2, 2013.
- ↑ "Wharton Page".
- ↑ "Give and Take Official Website".
- ↑ Pink, Daniel. "Is purpose really an effective motivator?". Retrieved April 2, 2013.
- ↑ Carter, Andrea. "The world's top business professors under 40". Fortune. Retrieved March 1, 2013.
- ↑ Black, Victoria. "Favorite Professors: Wharton's Adam Grant". BusinessWeek. Retrieved March 1, 2013.
- ↑ Cain, Susan. "Hire Introverts". The Atlantic. Retrieved March 1, 2013.
- ↑ Bestseller by the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Publisher’s Weekly, USA Today, San Francisco Chronicle, Indie Bound; reached #3 on both Amazon and Barnes & Noble (2013).
- ↑ Grant was rated 47th in the US among public school male students in 1999.
- ↑ Adam Grant presenting his new book "Give and Take", while showing great story-telling as well as magician skills on YouTube
External links
 Successful Givers, Toxic Takers, and the Life We Spend at Work, On Being, October 22, 2015 |