Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success

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Book provides a fresh perspective on how to manage relationships in this connected world. And gives some startling examples. However the content is bit more stretched than needed.

The book was received in poor condition. It doesn’t look like a new book.

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Saw the book in a bookstore in Amsterdam Airport. Bought it, read it, loved it. Bought a couple more of them and gave them away to friends as a gift. Why? 1) I like self help books 2) I like when the "good people" win (ok, I may look a bit simple minded) 3) I like success (mine as well as success of others) This book shows how the "good people" win and generate success beyond their own lives as well as for themselves. The book explains how selflessly helping of others ("giving") is not "outright stupid" in a capitalistic world. Yes, you can exhaust yourself and help without ever getting something back. Yes, you can be a money grubbing capitalist ("taker") and have - at least a short lived - success. This book shows why - with some minor tweaks - a giving attitude creates abundant success around you as well as for you. Yes, this book asks for commitment, dedication, hard work and the other virtues we may have heard about in school. There is no way around it. At the same time it shows how these disciplines go along with joy, fun, good mood, and most importantly success. Altruism is concept thought of and discussed at least since Auguste Comte in the 19th century. Adam Grant explains and refines it in an easy to read and easy to digest way. Watch out, the book might change your live or at least your way of living :-)

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Adam Grant is a brilliant organisational psychologist and a thrilling writer. If you enjoy reading books that are based on scientific evidence, whose content actually applies to your life and are written in an easy to understand yet highly compelling way, this is for you. A page-turner that will help you better understand how you relate to others and what you can do to be more successful. One of my favourite books of all time.

This is why I don't read mainstream pop books. The whole book is just names, organisations and people that we don't really care about. This book can be written in 1 chapter but the author extends to 300 pages piling all the random research work to prove his claim. If you buy this book you are reading a research paper