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I’m a big fan of Adam Grant’s work and loved “Originals.” It was published right before we launched Away, in February 2016, so reading it then was especially interesting as we were just starting out and taking something that was an idea and turning it into something that was entirely our own.
“Originals” has also influenced the way I lead my team. Adam emphasizes the notion that great leaders champion new perspectives and ideas, from anyone in the organization, encouraging innovation and cultivating great leaders from within. He talks a lot about how great leaders choose to go against the grain, and I think we’re doing that every single day at Away —consistently challenging the status quo and what we think we know, and using all the context we have to find the “Away way” of doing things. — Steph Korey, co-founder of Away, Columbia Business School