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Originals
- How Non-Conformists Change the World
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
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Publisher's 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to improve the world by championing novel ideas and values that go against the grain, battling conformity and bucking outdated traditions.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.
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- Kisor Biswal
- 30-03-19
Welcome questions, challenge the defaults
Most of the Ideas referred are familiar, still it's original as whole. To prove a few cases the author has given away too many examples making it lengthy.
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- Sudipto Roy
- 20-10-21
Highly Contentful and directed to the topic
It's practical and once in a lifetime read. Being original is a process and not an accident.
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- Amazon Customer
- 25-01-21
awesome.
This is a magnificent book to read and gain insight. a must read for professionals
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- Vinod
- 07-11-21
Too academic
Some nice thoughts and insights. Very research based, too many statistics quoted, very academic. Struggled to finish
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- Anil Nair
- 25-02-21
Most topics covered were good
first half of the book was more interesting than the second half. the topics of sibling orders and political revolutions seemed to take the book in a different direction
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- Maneet
- 03-12-20
An honest attempt - But don’t read it as prescriptive
Originals is an honest attempt at a different kind of business book.
It tries to share the reasoning and psychology behind behaviours of people who are Original. It does a fairly good job of it, by delving into different examples and aspects. Dissecting them to explain the context and patterns that occurred for the resulting originality.
In the first 3/4th of the book, the examples were valid and well presented, though sometimes too dragged like the Segway example. The other examples, specially of Martin Luther King Jr, Bridgewater were well presented and used.
Originality is so contextual and subjective that it is difficult to serve up a recipe for it. However, if you don’t read the book as prescriptive, but as a story, you will go back with enough ideas and thoughts, that can be applied and experimented with.
All in all, a good attempt at a difficult subject. I would recommend that you read it.
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- Praveen
- 28-05-19
Think different Moto
This book teaches you think differently to bring out new ideas but bit boring stories.
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- Vivek
- 16-05-23
Innovative and Powerful
Excellent insights on originality and how to cultivate it. However totally US context hard for the international audience. May consider including a few international anecdotes and perspectives in future editions particularly from India, China Japan Korea etc
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- Rock Solid Solutions
- 20-12-21
laden with hindsight bias
genuinely wanted to like d book, but a lot of it is hindsight bias..
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- Vaseekaran
- 21-02-20
Simply amazing.
One of the brilliant books on goals, thinking, idea, entrepreneurship. This is a "Must read"
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