How to make your workplace a better place with Adam Grant

How to make your workplace a better place with Adam Grant

University of Pennsylvania professor Adam Grant talks with Capital Group's Matt Miller about the dynamics of success and productivity in the workplace. Might a six-hour work week help? Can procrastination actually be a good thing? Listen and find out.

Organizational psychologist Adam Grant is the top-rated professor at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business. He's been recognized as one of the world's 10 most influential management thinkers in Fortune's 40 under 40 and is the bestselling author of three books: Give and Take, Originals and Option B with Sheryl Sandberg. Grant's two Ted Talks have been viewed over 16 million times. He also hosts the WorkLife podcast. Grant received his BA from Harvard and his PhD from the University of Michigan. He is a former magician and junior Olympic springboard diver.

Your host Matt Miller is the policy and communications advisor for Capital Group. An author and former Washington Post columnist, Matt was co-host of the public radio program Left, Right & Center.

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