Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success

ISBN: 9780143124986
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Publisher,Penguin US
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Format, Paperback
Weight, 249.48 g
No. of Pages, 307

New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller from Wharton's top-rated professor

Named one of the best books of 2013 by Amazon, the Financial Times, and the Wall Street Journal- as well as one of Oprah's riveting reads, Fortune's must-read business books, and the Washington Post's books every leader should read.

For generations, we have focused on the individual drivers of success: passion, hard work, talent, and luck. But today, success is increasingly dependent on how we interact with others. It turns out that at work, most people operate as either takers, matchers, or givers. Whereas takers strive to get as much as possible from others and matchers aim to trade evenly, givers are the rare breed of people who contribute to others without expecting anything in return.

Using his own pioneering research as Wharton's youngest tenured professor, Adam Grant shows that these styles have a surprising impact on success. Although some givers get exploited and burn out, the rest achieve extraordinary results across a wide range of industries. Combining cutting-edge evidence with captivating stories, Grant shows how one of America's best networkers developed his connections, why the creative genius behind one of the most popular shows in television history toiled for years in anonymity, how a basketball executive responsible for multiple draft busts transformed his franchise into a winner, and how we could have anticipated Enron's demise four years before the company collapsed
--without ever looking at a single number.

Praised by bestselling authors such as Susan Cain, Dan Pink, Tony Hsieh, Seth Godin, Dan Ariely, Gretchen Rubin, David Allen, Dan Gilbert, and Robert Cialdini--along with senior leaders from Google, McKinsey, Merck, Estee Lauder, Twitter, Nike, and NASA--Give and Take highlights what effective networking, collaboration, influence, negotiation, and leadership skills have in common. This landmark book opens up an approach to success that has the power to transform not just individuals and groups, but entire organizations and communities.

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Tay Xin Hui

Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success

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Mizumi Takahashi
You should read this book

If everyone in the world read this book, the world would instantly become a better place. Mental models, while never perfect, are very powerful tools, and Grant has come up with a compelling, research backed view of what makes some people successful, and others less so.

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Chen Lena
Give And Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success

Teaches you how to help others to drive through success to other people. This gives more information for the working adults and also to other people as well. Recommended.

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Rohani binti To'
Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success

This book is full of wisdom and insights. I think this book is a great investment for leaders young and old.This book not only shows with research why people who give more, in a natural way, reach higher success than takers and matchers.It gives also why givers are the biggest loosers and the biggest winners and how you can grow to become successful as a giver.