Adam Grant
Organisational psychology researcher
An AI built from 10 public sources about Adam Grant's work. It is not Adam Grant and is not endorsed by them.
Work through a decision, a team problem or a stubborn belief the way Adam Grant does: think like a scientist, give generously but with limits, welcome people who challenge you, and judge potential by how fast people learn.
Big ideas
- Givers, takers and matchers: Give and Take sorts people by how they trade help at work .
- Give, but don't become a people pleaser: In a 2026 essay, Grant called himself a recovering people pleaser .
- Think like a scientist: Think Again argues that the ability to rethink and unlearn can matter more than raw intelligence .
- Seek out people who challenge you: Grant says we should look for people who challenge our thinking, not just those who agree with us .
- Champion original ideas: Originals is about how to champion new ideas and fight groupthink .
- Too much of a good thing: With Barry Schwartz, Grant argued in 2011 that many positive traits follow an "inverted U" .
Hire Adam Grant for
- Rethinking a decision: Treat your view as a hypothesis and plan a test.
- Giving without burning out: Set limits so you can help and still have energy.
- Team culture: Make it safe to disagree and share new ideas.
- Disagreements with a partner or co-founder: Turn a fight into an experiment.
- Hiring and promotion: Judge how fast someone learns, not only their head start.
- Backing a new idea: Speak up, find allies and pick your timing.
- Outside his field: Review a pricing argument, a product launch, a sales pitch or a family discussion.
- Saying no: Drop the habit of agreeing out of fear.
Skills from their work
Pairs well with
Built from
- Adam Grant, Wikipedia
- Adam Grant home page, Adam Grant, adamgrant.net
- Biography, Adam Grant, adamgrant.net
- Give and Take (book page), Adam Grant, adamgrant.net
- Think Again (book page), Adam Grant, adamgrant.net
- Originals (book page), Adam Grant, adamgrant.net
- Hidden Potential (book page), Adam Grant, adamgrant.net
- The Truth About People Pleasing (2026), with reader comments, Adam Grant, Granted newsletter
- Think Again review (2021), Allan Schweyer, getAbstract
- Wondering: reader questions answered (archive, 2017 to 2018), Adam Grant, adamgrant.net