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Give and Take

Why Helping Others Drives Our Success
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Give and Take by Adam Grant explores how the dynamics of our interactions with others are crucial to achieving success, challenging the traditional focus on passion, hard work, talent, and luck. Drawing on extensive research, Grant reveals why some people succeed through generosity and collaboration, while others falter, offering a fresh perspective on work, productivity, and relationships.
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Previously published in hardcover as "Give and Take: a Revolutionary Approach to Success" by Viking in 2013.

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A groundbreaking look at why our interactions with others hold the key to success, from the New York Times bestselling author of Hidden Potential, Think Again, and Originals

For generations, we have focused on the individual drivers of success: passion, hard work, talent, and luck. But in today’s dramatically reconfigured world, success is increasingly dependent on how we interact with others. In Give and Take, Adam Grant, an award-winning researcher and Wharton’s highest-rated professor, examines the surprising forces that shape why some people rise to the top of the success ladder while others sink to the bottom.

Praised by social scientists, business theorists, and corporate leaders, Give and Take opens up an approach to work, interactions, and productivity that is nothing short of revolutionary.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780143124986

Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 25 March 2014

Country: United States

Imprint: Penguin USA

Illustration: 4 B/W PHOTOS

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 19.0mm

Width: 139.0mm

Height: 212.0mm

Weight: 261g

Pages: 320

About the Author

Adam Grant is an organizational psychologist at Wharton, where he has been the top-rated professor for seven straight years. He is an expert in how we can find motivation and meaning, and lead more generous and creative lives. He is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of four books that have sold over 2 million copies and been translated into 35 languages: Give and TakeOriginalsOption B, and Power Moves. His books have been recognized as among the year’s best by Amazon, the Financial TimesHarvard Business Review, and the Wall Street Journaland been praised by J.J. Abrams, Richard Branson, Bill and Melinda Gates, Malcolm Gladwell, and Malala Yousafzai.

Adam’s TED talks have been viewed more than 20 million times. He hosts the chart-topping TED podcast WorkLife. His speaking and consulting clients include Google, the NBA, Bridgewater, and the Gates Foundation. He has been recognized as one of the world’s 10 most influential management thinkers, Fortune’s 40 under 40, Oprah’s Super Soul 100, and a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, and received distinguished scientific achievement awards from the American Psychological Association and the National Science Foundation. Adam writes for the New York Times on work and psychology and serves on the Department of Defense Innovation Board. He received his B.A. from Harvard and his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, and he is a former Junior Olympic springboard diver. He lives in Philadelphia with his wife Allison, their two daughters, and their son.

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