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    Summary and Analysis of Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World: Based on the Book by Adam Grant
    Summary and Analysis of Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World: Based on the Book by Adam Grant
    Summary and Analysis of Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World: Based on the Book by Adam Grant
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    Summary and Analysis of Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World: Based on the Book by Adam Grant

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    So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World tells you what you need to know—before or after you read Adam Grant’s book.
     
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    •          Historical context
    •          Chapter-by-chapter overviews
    •          Profiles of the main characters
    •          Detailed timeline of events
    •          Important quotes and analysis
    •          Fascinating trivia
    •          Glossary of terms
    •          Supporting material to enhance your understanding of the original work
     
    About Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World by Adam Grant:
     
    Originals is an exploration into what it takes to be an original—a person whose ideas are novel, stimulating, and unconventional, and who works on improving the world and challenging the status quo.
     
    Adam Grant shows readers how to manage fear, appreciate the art of timing, recognize good ideas, and communicate new concepts in their personal and professional lives. He discusses how to inspire creativity in children and how to foster originality within organizations and teams.
     
    The summary and analysis in this ebook are intended to complement your reading experience and bring you closer to a great work of nonfiction.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateApr 11, 2017
    ISBN9781504044899
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    Summary and Analysis of Originals - Worth Books

    Contents

    Context

    Overview

    Summary

    Timeline

    Cast of Characters

    Direct Quotes and Analysis

    Trivia

    What’s That Word?

    Critical Response

    About Adam Grant

    For Your Information

    Bibliography

    Copyright

    Context

    It’s said that the US Patent Office announced in 1899, Everything that can be invented has been invented. Yet, from community to technology to transportation to politics to simple information exchange, the 20th and 21st centuries have disrupted that idea—and proved it wrong. And even though technology has changed our lives radically in just the last decade, it remains hard to imagine it changing that much yet again.

    Author Adam Grant says it can. There are original ideas out there, and they can benefit business, government, nonprofit causes, and our everyday lives. Not only does innovation continue, we don’t have to wait for geniuses to lead us. We all hold the power to make those leaps.

    In his book Originals, Grant documents how non-conformists develop curate new ideas, and advance the right ones through work with advocates, alliances, and coalitions. He also demonstrates how our notion that things change because geniuses make leaps—Edison and his light bulb, for example—is exactly the opposite of how great change occurs. His stories of both failures and successes give us a snapshot of our world as it exists—and a roadmap to being part of its future.

    Overview

    Originals, says CEO of Facebook and Lean In author, Sheryl Sandberg, is a book about the science of what motivates people. It’s not a dry guide to success, or a grouping of data sets. Instead, the book contains stories of nonconformists who have changed the world—and why everything we believe about how they did it is wrong.

    Those who change the world, Grant says, don’t do it by taking risks, bucking convention, making sudden leaps, or driving themselves relentlessly. In fact, the path to some of the most revolutionary

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