num_pages: 326
description: In Originals the author addresses the challenge of improving the world from the perspective of becoming original: choosing to champion novel ideas and values that go against the grain battle conformity and buck outdated traditions. How can we originate new ideas policies and practices without risking it all? 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; how parents and teachers can nurture originality in children; and how leaders can build cultures that welcome dissent. Learn from an entrepreneur who pitches his start-ups by highlighting the reasons not to invest a woman at Apple who challenged Steve Jobs from three levels below an analyst who overturned the rule of secrecy at the CIA a billionaire financial wizard who fires employees for failing to criticize him and a TV executive who didnt even work in comedy but saved Seinfeld from the cutting-room floor. The payoff is a set of groundbreaking insights about rejecting conformity and improving the status quo.
language: English
title: Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World
publisher: Viking