Adam Grant On Interviewing to Hire Trailblazers, Nonconformists and Originals

This book breaks down how non-conformists can work within organizations to move people away from the status quo. It also covers building an innovative culture and gets into some of the ways organizations can quash original thinking.

"Using surprising studies and stories spanning business, politics, sports, and entertainment, Grant explores how to re... See more

“The majority of companies don’t work in the way we do, which leads to fewer people with these kinds of skills. A conventional interview process, often modeled by large companies, doesn’t account for this. It’s challenging to assess in interviews if someone is truly a builder, has good taste and judgment, can take initiative, and approaches problem... See more

Ultimately, the people who choose to champion originality a ones who propel us forward. After spending years studying them and interacting with them, I am struck that their inner experiences a not any different from our own. They feel the same fear, the same doubt, as the rest of us. What sets them apart is that they take action anyway. They know i

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The more I’ve done it, the more I realize that what most people think of as the hard parts of hiring—asking just the right question that catches the candidate off guard, defining the role correctly, assessing the person’s skills—are less important than a more basic task: how do you see someone, including yourself, clearly?