Give and Take: WHY HELPING OTHERS DRIVES OUR SUCCESS

people tend to make others jealous, placing themselves at risk of being disliked, resented, ostracized, and undermined. But if t ...

Claiming the Lion’s Share of the Credit Although Meyer’s giving strengthened his reputation in the inner circles of show busines ...

University of Pittsburgh had developed a vaccine that appeared to be effective. That year witnessed the worst polio epidemic in ...

Salk thought his colleagues were jealous. “If someone does something and gets credit for it, then there is this tendency to have ...

The Responsibility Bias To understand this puzzle, we need to take a trip to Canada, where psychologists have been asking marrie ...

mental or physical anguish. Meyer didn’t invent that word, but he did coin yoink, the familiar phrase that Simpsons characters u ...

Givers like Meyer do this naturally: they take care to recognize what other people contribute. In one study, psychologist Michae ...

The Perspective Gap If overcoming the responsibility bias gives us a clearer understanding of others’ contributions, what is it ...

the cancer. Although the oncologist was a prominent expert in his field, Burton remembers him “mainly for what he taught me abou ...

Why? Research shows that when we take others’ perspectives, we tend to stay within our own frames of reference, asking “How woul ...

buildings in keeping with your ideal. But you have been weak in your support of others in their desire for this same attainment. ...

Meyer helped them soar. “I just asked the people who made me laugh to contribute,” Meyer told Mike Sacks. “I didn’t realize they ...

4 Finding the Diamond in the Rough The Fact and Fiction of Recognizing Potential When we treat man as he is, we make him worse t ...

struggled with percentages. When it came time to take the certified public accountant (CPA) exam, Beth was convinced that she wo ...

the radar. In 2011, Love left the White House to study at Wharton. He sent a note to Skender: “I’m on the train to Philly to sta ...

Star Search In the early 1980s, a psychologist named Dov Eden published the first in a series of extraordinary results. He could ...

smarter than their peers—the difference “was in the mind of the teacher.” Yet the bloomers became smarter than their peers, in b ...

bloomers naturally, without ever being told. This is rarely the case for takers, who tend to place little trust in other people. ...

Polishing the Diamond in the Rough In 1985, a student of Skender’s named Marie Arcuri sat for the CPA exam. She wasn’t a good st ...

leadership development: identify high-potential people, and then provide them with the mentoring, support, and resources needed ...