Thursday, March 31, 2016Join New York Times bestselling author and Wharton professor, Adam Grant on tour for his latest book, Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World.
Originals is about how to champion new ideas and fight groupthink. Using surprising studies and stories spanning business, politics, sports, and entertainment, Professor 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.
Adam Grant is Wharton's top-rated professor. He has been recognized as one of HR's more influential international thinkers, BusinessWeek's favorite professor, one of the world's forty best business professors under forty. Grant was tenured at Wharton while still in his twenties and has been honored with the Excellence in Teaching Award for every class he has taught. His first book, Give and Take, was a New York Times bestseller translated into twenty-seven languages and names one of the best books of 2013 by Amazon, Apple, the Financial Times, and the Wall Street Journal - as well as one of Oprah's riveting reads, Fortune's must-read business books, Harvard Business Review's ideas that shaped management, and the Washington Post's books every leader should read. His speaking and consulting clients include Google, the NFL, Merck, Goldman Sachs, Disney Pixar, the United Nations, and the U.S. Army and Navy. He serves as a contributing op-ed writer for the New York Times and was profiled in a cover story by its magazine. Grant earned his Ph.D. in organizational psychology from the University of Michigan and his B.A. from Harvard College.
Event details
Date: Thursday, March 31, 2016
Time: 5:30pm - 6:30pm
Location: Desautels Hall (2nd Floor, South Building)
Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto
105 St. George St., Toronto
Cost: $50 plus HST (fee includes a seat at the session and 1 copy of Originals)
We look forward to seeing you there!
