Andrea Willige
December 5, 2025
This video is part of: Centre for the New Economy and Society
Adam Grant is an organizational psychologist and professor at Wharton. Traditional hierarchies can stifle innovation, he says. One ‘no’ from on high can be all it takes to kill an idea. So instead of a ladder with just one route upwards, what about a corporate lattice?
Adam Grant is an organizational psychologist and professor at Wharton.
He says: "On average, most people at work spend more than half of their time in meetings where very little gets done. And oftentimes people walk away more depressed than they were when they came in. I think the point of meeting is to do, to bond, to learn or to create. And we don't need to do that together every day. We need to do it together about once a week."
Andrea Willige
December 5, 2025