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5 workplace conventions that belong in the past according to Adam Grant

This video is part of: Centre for the New Economy and Society

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."

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Adam Grant

Saul P. Steinberg Professor of Management and Psychology, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

Topics:
Jobs and the Future of Work
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