Worklife with Adam Grant
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You spend a quarter of your life at work. You should enjoy it! Organizational psychologist Adam Grant takes you inside the minds of some of the world’s most unusual professionals to discover the keys to a better work life. From learning how to love your rivals to harnessing the power of frustration, one thing’s for sure: You’ll never see your job the same way again. Produced in partnership with Transmitter Media.Follow Adam on Instagram @adamgrant, LinkedIn at @adammgrant Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Top mentioned books
Here are the most frequently recommended books on the Worklife with Adam Grant podcast:
#1 Mentioned in 10 episodes
Think Again
Adam Grant
#2 Mentioned in 4 episodes
Outliers
The Story of Success
Malcolm Gladwell
#3 Mentioned in 4 episodes
1984
George Orwell
#4 Mentioned in 3 episodes
The Fault in Our Stars
John Green
#5 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Obliquity
John Kay
Jeff Kanipe
#6 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Noise
A Flaw in Human Judgment
Olivier Sibony
Daniel Kahneman
Cass R. Sunstein
#7 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Sapiens
A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari
#8 Mentioned in 2 episodes
David and Goliath
Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants
Malcolm Gladwell
#9 Mentioned in 2 episodes
War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy
#10 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Untamed
Glennon Doyle
#11 Mentioned in 2 episodes
My Life in Full
Indra Nooyi
#12 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Talking to Strangers
What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know
Malcolm Gladwell
#13 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Hidden Potential
The Science of Achieving Greater Things
Adam Grant
#14 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Chatter
The Voice in Our Head, Why It Matters, and How to Harness It
Ethan Kross
#15 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Daring Greatly
How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
Brené Brown
#16 Mentioned in 2 episodes
The No Asshole Rule
Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn't
Robert Sutton
#17 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Emotional Intelligence
Why It Can Matter More Than IQ
Daniel Goleman
#18 Mentioned in 2 episodes
The Anthropocene Reviewed
Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
John Green
#19 Mentioned in 2 episodes
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman
#20 Mentioned in 2 episodes
The gifts of imperfection
Brené Brown
