Summary: Give and Take E-Book

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• Herausgeber: Business Book Summaries
• Kategorie: Fachliteratur
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 35

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2015

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The must-read summary of Adam Grant's book: "Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success".

This complete summary of the ideas from Adam Grant's book "Give and Take" shows how success depends on how you interact with others.
In the world of work, there are three types of people: takers, who maximise reward from every transaction, matchers; who give only as much as they take, and givers, who help others expecting nothing in return. The type of person you are at work has a huge impact on your future. According to Grant, givers are the people that achieve the greatest success.

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Book Presentation: Give and Take by Adam Grant

Summary of Give and Take (Adam Grant)

Book Presentation: Give and Take by Adam Grant

Book Abstract

For generations, it has been assumed the drivers of success in business are: passion, hard work, talent and luck. But today, success is far more likely to be dependent on how well you interact with others.

At work, most people tend to operate in one of three basic styles:

Takers – those who work towards getting as much as possible from every transaction.Matchers – who aim to even up the ledger and give only as much as they take (quid pro quo).Givers – the rare breed who go out of their way to help others without expecting anything in return.

As surprising as it may sound, which of these three styles you adopt at work can have a far-reaching impact on how successful you ultimately become. Research has shown quite definitively that over the long haul, the giver style works best. While it is certainly true some givers get exploited and burn out, it turns out the majority of the givers achieve extraordinary results across a wide range of industries.

The lesson is simple. If you want to get ahead in life and in your career, be a giver.

“Let me be clear that givers, takers, and matchers all can—and do—achieve success. But there’s something distinctive that happens when givers succeed: it spreads and cascades. When takers win, there’s usually someone else who loses. When givers win, people are rooting for them and supporting them, rather than gunning for them. Givers succeed in a way that creates a ripple effect, enhancing the success of people around them. The difference lies in how giver success creates value, instead of just claiming it.”

- Adam Grant

About the Author

ADAM GRANT is the youngest professor ever offered tenure at The Wharton School. He has consulted with companies and organizations including Google, the NFL, Johnson & Johnson, Pixar, Goldman Sachs, the World Economic Forum, the United Nations and the U.S. Army and Navy. He has also profiled in a New York Times magazine cover story "Is giving the secret to getting ahead?" Before going to Wharton, Adam Grant was an advertising director, a junior Olympic springboard diver and professional magician. He is a graduate of the University of Michigan and Harvard University.

Important Note About This Ebook

This is a summary and not a critique or a review of the book. It does not offer judgment or opinion on the content of the book.  This summary may not be organized chapter-wise but is an overview of the main ideas, viewpoints and arguments from the book as a whole. This means that the organization of this summary is not a representation of the book.

Summary of Give and Take (Adam Grant)

1. Why and how givers rise to the top

Successful givers have unique and distinctive approaches to the four key activities of the modern business world:

Network GiversCollaborate GiversEvaluate GiversInfluence Givers

Thanks to the distinctive way they network, collaborate, evaluate and seek to influence, givers often rise to the top of the business world. Even if you're not a giver by nature, picking up on what they do so well has the potential to enhance your own career as well. Givers are doing something right so learn and benefit

1. Network Givers

Networking is good. It gives three major advantages:

Access to private information.Availability of diverse skills.Access to power and influence.

Givers, matchers and takers build and manage their personal networks in fundamentally different ways:

Takers by-and-large tend to approach networking as solely a numbers game. The more people they can get, the better. They go out of their way to demonstrate their self-importance. Takers are always highly self-absorbed so their approach to networking is to use the group to illuminate all the good stuff they're doing. Takers like to rack up a large number of superficial connections so they can advertise their accomplishments and look important.Matchers build networks primarily so they can get favors. They do nice things for the people in their network in anticipation of being able to call on them to reciprocate in the future.