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Givers, takers, matchers — and the discipline of thinking again.
Adam Grant (b. 1981), the Saul P. Steinberg Professor of Management at Wharton and its top-rated teacher for seven straight years, is an organizational psychologist whose research on prosocial motivation, originality, and rethinking has defined evidence-based management for a popular audience. He hosts the TED podcast WorkLife.
Grant's research on prosocial motivation showed that givers — with boundaries — finish first, and that generosity is an organizing principle, not a nicety. Think Again champions confident humility: the leader as scientist, rethinking rather than defending.
The era: Human-Centered & Paradoxical — Psychological safety, vulnerability, identity, and both/and thinking. Leadership as creating the conditions for learning — and holding competing truths at once.
Givers, takers, matchers — and the discipline of thinking again.
This theory sits in the Human-Centered & Paradoxical era of the map: Psychological safety, vulnerability, identity, and both/and thinking. Leadership as creating the conditions for learning — and holding competing truths at once.
Give strategically: be generous with help while guarding against burnout and takers.
Think again — hold opinions like a scientist, actively seeking disconfirmation.