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wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome to the HBO Idea Cash from Harvard Business Review.

I'm Sarah Green.

I'm talking today with Francesca Geno of Harvard Business School

and Adam Grant of the Wharton School.

Francesca is the author of Side Tract, why our decisions get derailed and how we can stick to the plan,

and Adam is the author of Give and Take, a revolutionary approach to success.

Our topic today is

thankfulness and gratitude and so I'd like to start by just

thanking you both very sincerely for joining us today. Thank you for having us.

Greatful that you asked. So I wanted to start with this idea that we all like to be thanked, but at the same time

we don't often express thanks maybe as much as we would like others

to thank us.

And this comes from a poll that I actually found out about via something that Francesca wrote,

which suggested that actually the workplace

is sort of the least thankful part of our lives about half of us will say thank

you on a daily basis to someone we're immediately related to but only 15% of us say thank you at work and

35% of people in this survey said that their managers never said thank you.

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