Adam Grant

Successful givers secure their oxygen masks before coming to the assistance of others. Although their motives may be less purely altruistic, their actions prove more altruistic, because they give more. ”

In the workplace, many people become helicopter managers, hovering over their employees in a well-intentioned but ill-fated attempt to provide support. These are givers gone awry - people so desperate to help others that they develop a white knight complex and end up causing harm instead. ”

Frenemies are worse than enemies, and it's not just in the workplace. ”

For women to achieve equal representation in leadership roles, it's important that they have the backing of men as well as women. ”

In the conversation about women in leadership, male voices are noticeably absent. ”

When writing 'Give and Take' and 'Originals,' the predominant emotion for me was curiosity. ”

We all have original ideas. Even if we don't see ourselves as supercreative or as wild nonconformists, we have insights every day about how the world around us could be better. It might be a better way of running meetings in your office that would be less mind-numbing. It might be a little twist on a product or a service. ”

Being a magician taught me how powerful the element of surprise can be. In each book, I've tried to work that in - an unexpected twist in a story that reveals an insight, a counter intuitive study that turns your beliefs upside-down. ”

Instead of assuming that emotional intelligence is always useful, we need to think more carefully about where and when it matters. ”

Some of the greatest moments in human history were fueled by emotional intelligence. ”