“If people fear making mistakes, they fear taking action. That’s how toxic cultures start.”
"Define your identity in terms of values, not opinions. It's easier to avoid getting stuck to your past beliefs if you don't become attached to them as part of your present self-concept. See yourself as someone who values curiosity, learning, mental flexibility, and searching for knowledge."
- Adam Grant
Self-awareness
"Decency is avoiding disrespect, not avoiding disagreement. Integrity is trying to get it right, not being right."
- Adam Grant
Teamwork
"Every time we interact with another person at work, we have a choice to make: do we try to claim as much value as we can, or contribute value without worrying about what we receive in return?"
- Adam Grant
Teamwork
"If an organization values innovation, you can assume it’s safe to speak up with new ideas, leaders will listen, and your voice matters."
- Adam Grant
Creativity
"Creativity may be hard to nurture, but it’s easy to thwart."
- Adam Grant
Creativity
"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."
- Joshua J. Marine
Adversity
"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it."
- Epicurus
Adversity
"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness."
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Adversity
"The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself—the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us—that’s where it’s at."
- Jesse Owens
Adversity
"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."
- Frederick Douglass
Adversity