Give and Take: WHY HELPING OTHERS DRIVES OUR SUCCESS

about players. Even though they’re competing in a zero-sum sport, he shares knowledge to help rival teams make good decisions ab ...

Although many of us hold strong giver values, we’re often reluctant to express them at work. But the growth of teamwork, service ...

colleagues. In politics, Abraham Lincoln became president—and built a legacy as one of the greatest leaders in world history—by ...

ACTIONS FOR IMPACT If you’re interested in applying the principles in this book to your work or your life, I’ve compiled a set o ...

of his employees had made some effort toward making their visions a reality, and roughly half of those employees succeeded in la ...

A fascinating approach called the Love Machine was developed at Linden Lab, the company behind the virtual world Second Life. In ...

Join a Community of Givers. To find other givers, join a Freecycle community to give away goods and see what other people need ...

day for a month, GOOD suggests a different way to give. For more examples of random acts of kindness, check out Sasha Dichter’s ...

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The seeds for this book were planted by my grandparents, Florence and Paul Borock, who tirelessly invested their ...

Whitney Peeling, Lindsay Prevette, Britney Ross, Jeff Schell, Nancy Sheppard, Michael Sigle, Dennis Swaim, and Jeannette William ...

Aguilar, Tanner Almond, Michael Althoff, Dan Baker, Rangel Barbosa, Dominique Basile, Deepa Bhat, Bill Boroughf, Andrew Brodsky, ...

REFERENCES Chapter 1: Good Returns Opening quote: Samuel L. Clemens (aka Mark Twain), “At the Dinner to Joseph H. Choate, Novemb ...

service sector continues to expand: Adam M. Grant and Sharon K. Parker, “Redesigning Work Design Theories: The Rise of Relationa ...

“hopes of getting something in return”: Personal interview with Dan Weinstein (January 26, 2012). “How can I help”: Guy Kawasaki ...

Victimization,” Journal of Applied Psychology 95 (2010): 889–901. revealed his skills: Sabrina Deutsch Salamon and Yuval Deutsch ...

Chapter 4: Finding the Diamond in the Rough Reggie Love: Personal interview (May 28, 2012); and Peter Baker, “Education of a Pre ...

The Autobiography of Tommie Smith (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2007), 84; Filip Bondy, Tip-off : How the 1984 NBA Dra ...

Psychology 102 (2012): 351–366. people expect us to communicate powerfully: Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a Worl ...

Galinsky, “Turn Your Adversary into Your Advocate,” Negotiation (2007): 4–6. effective ways to influence: Gary Yukl and J. Bruce ...

to the Radiographic Examination,” Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (2008). Italian nurses: Nicola Bel ...