“If people fear making mistakes, they fear taking action. That’s how toxic cultures start.”
"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
"Argue like you’re right, and listen like you’re wrong."
- Adam Grant
Learning
"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