Name: Give and Take
ISBN: 9780670026555

Adam M. Grant

Explains how networking and leadership skills are subject to the professional interaction styles of takers, matchers, and givers, and how these personalities dramatically shape success rates.

A Revolutionary Approach to Success

Give and Take

Erwin Lemuel Oliva

This book is full of stories of real people (some anonymous) who exemplify the "giver". While it took me a while to finish this book, the stories were interesting, especially that of Adam Rifkin and other "characters" who served as examples of givers versus "takers." Grant is great at research. Much of this is based on very deep and thorough knowledge of human psychology. The last few chapters were a bit extensions of earlier points made, but the last chapter on practical things you can do is perhaps most useful. Adam Grant never fails to amaze me.

Felipe Saldarriaga 

Interesting book and yet kind of redundant around the idea of reciprocity and grow with others

Nadine 

Sometimes I think one doesn't find books, but they find you. This is one such book. I've been doing a lot of giving recently and have noticed that the takers are out in full force...
This book explains how to try and put some balance and how sometimes chronic giving can be helped ironically by increasing giving but in the right areas where your giving has real benefits.
Worth a read.

Salam Kabbani

In this book, Adam Grant explains that human behavior generally falls into three different categories: giver, taker, and matcher. He explains how we tend to have different tendencies in different situations; however, most of us have tendencies that are more in sync with one of the categorical designations. 

He explores how givers are both at the bottom and top of the success ladder in the workplace. He guides the reader, especially the giver, how to be strategic and optimize giving to ensure that she does not burn out in the process. He also gives advice to the giver and matcher on how to recognize a taker when he sees one so that he does not fall into a taker trap. 

As a traditional giver I found this book to be a great resource that has certainly helped me recognize areas that I need to improve to make sure I am being helpful to others at work while still succeeding myself. Highly recommend this book.

Ani Velasquez

Adam Grant

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.

Give and Take A Revolutionary Approach to Success

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