The New York Times bestseller
'Brimming with life-changing insights' Susan Cain, author of Quiet
'Excellent' Financial Times
Everybody knows that hard work, luck and talent each plays a role in our working lives. In his landmark book, Adam Grant illuminates the importance of a fourth, increasingly critical factor - that the best way to get to the top is to focus on bringing others with you.
Give and Take changes our fundamental understanding of why we succeed, offering a new model for our relationships with colleagues, clients and competitors. Using his own cutting-edge research as a professor at Wharton Business School, as well as success stories from Hollywood to history, Grant shows that nice guys need not finish last. He demonstrates how smart givers avoid becoming doormats, and why this kind of success has the power to transform not just individuals and groups, but entire organisations and communities.
| ISBN: | 9781780224725 |
| Publication date: | 9th January 2014 |
| Author: | Adam Grant |
| Publisher: | Weidenfeld & Nicolson an imprint of Orion |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 366 pages |
| Genres: |
Advice on careers and achieving success |
Give and Take is a compelling research based book that explains how people have become successful in their careers and business goals by being the right type of person when interacting with others.
Give and Take is a compelling research based book that explains how people have become successful in their careers and business goals by being the right type of person when interacting with others. Grant categorizes people into three types: givers, takers, and matchers. In a world where success is dependent on how we interact, he finds that givers are more likely to become successful than takers and matchers. Surprisingly the data backs it up. I really liked the interesting stories of successful people who have lived a givers lifestyle that showed how a giving culture pays off. Grant also explains how people can vary between the three types depending on certain aspects of work especially since givers can be taken advantage of.... Read Full Review