The release date for the English version of 'Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success' by
Adam M. Grant is Apr 2013. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
Give and Take demonstrates the connections between successful networking, teamwork, persuasion, bargaining, and leadership abilities.
We have spent centuries emphasising the individual factors that contribute to success: ability, hard effort, enthusiasm, and good fortune. But these days, our ability to engage with people plays a bigger and bigger role in our success. It turns out that most individuals function as providers, matchers, or takers at work. Givers are a special kind of individuals who help others without expecting anything in return, in contrast to takers who want to grab as much as possible from others and matchers who want to deal fairly.
As the youngest tenured professor at Wharton, Grant uses his own groundbreaking research to demonstrate the unexpected influence various types have on success. While some donors are taken advantage of and burn out, the others accomplish amazing things in a variety of fields. This groundbreaking book, which combines cutting-edge research with compelling narratives, explains how one of America's greatest networkers made his connections, why the brilliant mind behind one of the most watched television programmes ever worked for years in secret, how a basketball executive who was responsible for several draught busts turned his team into a winner, and how, without ever consulting a single financial statement, we could have predicted Enron's collapse four years before the company went bankrupt.
Praised by top executives from Google, McKinsey, Merck, Estee Lauder, Nike, and NASA, as well as best-selling authors Dan Pink, Tony Hsieh, Dan Ariely, Susan Cain, Dan Gilbert, Gretchen Rubin, Bob Sutton, David Allen, Robert Cialdini, and Seth Godin, Give and Take demonstrates the commonalities between effective networking, collaboration, influence, negotiation, and leadership skills. This groundbreaking book presents a successful strategy that has the ability to completely change communities and organisations in addition to people and groups.