Foreword / Sheryl Sandberg --
Creative destruction: the risky business of going against the grain --
Blind inventors and one-eyed inventors: the art and science of recognizing original ideas --
Out on a limb: speaking truth to power --
Fools rush in: timing, strategic procrastination, and the first-mover disadvantage --
Goldilocks and the Trojan Horse: creating and maintaining coalitions --
Rebel with a cause: how siblings, parents, and mentors nurture originality --
Rethinking groupthink: the myths of strong cultures, cults, and devil's advocates --
Rocking the boat and keeping it steady: managing anxiety, apathy, ambivalence, and anger --

The New York Times best-selling author examines how people can drive creative, moral, and organisational progress-and how leaders can encourage originality in their organisations. How can we originate new ideas, policies and practices without risking it all? Adam Grant shows how to improve the world by championing novel ideas and values that go against the grain, battling conformity, and bucking outdated traditions. Using surprising studies and stories spanning business, politics, sports, and entertainment, 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 fight group think to build cultures that welcome dissent. Learn from an entrepreneur who pitches his startups by highlighting the reasons not to invest, a woman at Apple who challenged Steve Jobs from three levels below, an analyst who overturned the rule of secrecy at the CIA, a billionaire financial wizard who fires employees for failing to criticize him, and a TV executive who didn't even work in comedy but saved Seinfeld from the cutting room floor. Originals will give you ground breaking insights about rejecting conformity and improving the status quo.