Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World
I’m seeing Adam Grant interview Sheryl Sandberg in a few weeks and so I wanted to read his breakout book, Originals.
A couple standout lessons for me were the tactics of framing your ideas in a familiar framework and acknowledging your idea’s weaknesses as early as possible. Some of the concepts were old hat at this point – intersectional thinking isn’t exactly new – but others were counter intuitive, like Grant’s assessment that the most successful entrepreneurs in fact tend to be more risk-averse than less successful entrepreneurs – Warby Parker is held up as the epitome of de-risking an idea.
As someone who’s struggled at times to be an “original” in a legacy organization (see: PMN) I thought the lessons were well worth the cost of admission.