Give and Take: WHY HELPING OTHERS DRIVES OUR SUCCESS

Waking the Sleeping Giants In 1993, a college student named Graham Spencer teamed up with five friends to build an Internet star ...

common assumption that we get the most help from our strong ties, Granovetter surveyed people in professional, technical, and ma ...

karmic moments can often be traced to the fact that matchers are on a mission to make them happen. Just as matchers will sacrifi ...

Dormant Ties Because he maintains such a large network, Adam Rifkin has a growing number of dormant ties— people he used to see ...

Dormant ties are the neglected value in our networks, and givers have a distinctive edge over takers and matchers in unlocking t ...

into Rifkin, who asked how the start-up was going and offered some invaluable insights about how to reposition his company. Rifk ...

The Five-Minute Favor In 2012, a LinkedIn recruiter named Stephanie was asked to list the three people who had the most influenc ...

fixed pie. When givers like Rifkin build networks, they expand the pie so that everyone can get a larger slice. Nick Sullivan, a ...

you’re getting something in return. The goal of the group is to instill the value of giving: you don’t have to be transactional ...

that favor adding rather than claiming or trading value, expanding the pie for all involved. When they truly need help, givers c ...

3 The Ripple Effect Collaboration and the Dynamics of Giving and Taking Credit It is well to remember that the entire universe, ...

been a major contributor to a movie that grossed more than $527 million. He has won seven Emmy Awards and invented several words ...

Collaboration and Creative Character When we consider what it takes to attain George Meyer’s level of comedic impact, there’s li ...

his monologues, he called God “a ridiculous superstition, invented by frightened cavemen” and referred to marriage as “a stagnan ...

Simon hired Meyer and a few of the other contributors to Army Man, and they went on to make The Simpsons a hit together. In the ...

Flying Solo In the twentieth century, perhaps no person was more emblematic of eminent creativity than Frank Lloyd Wright. In 19 ...

But the very same taker tendencies that served Wright well in Fallingwater also precipitated his nine-year slump. For two decade ...

didn’t carry over to other hospitals. To reduce the risk of patient mortality, the surgeons needed relationships with specific s ...

I Wish I Could Hate You After Meyer left Saturday Night Live in 1987, he hightailed it out of New York City and moved to Boulder ...

people weren’t as excited, that’s when I felt I had to step up my game.” He rose to the occasion, cowriting a hilarious sketch f ...