“hopes of getting something in return”: Personal interview with Dan Weinstein (January 26, 2012).
“How can I help”: Guy Kawasaki interview with Warren Cass, accessed May 14, 2012, http://www.youtube.com/watch?
feature=player_embedded&v=_OsWvp2X8gk.
“weak ties”: Mark Granovetter, “The Strength of Weak Ties: A Network Theory Revisited,” Sociological Theory 1 (1983): 201–233.
pronoia: Fred H. Goldner, “Pronoia,” Social Problems 30 (1982): 82–91; and personal interview with Brian Little (January 24, 2011).
dormant ties: Daniel Z. Levin, Jorge Walter, and J. Keith Murnighan, “Dormant Ties: The Value of Reconnecting,” Organization
Science 22 (2011): 923–939; and “The Power of Reconnection: How Dormant Ties Can Surprise You,” MIT Sloan
Management Review 52 (2011): 45–50.
energy through networks: Rob Cross, Wayne Baker, and Andrew Parker, “What Creates Energy in Organizations?” MIT Sloan
Management Review 44 (2003): 51–56.
“someone else will do something for me down the road”: Robert Putnam, Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of
American Community (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000), 21.
giving can be contagious: James H. Fowler and Nicholas A. Christakis, “Cooperative Behavior Cascades in Human Social
Networks,” PNAS 107 (2010): 5334–5338.
consistent givers: J. Mark Weber and J. Keith Murnighan, “Suckers or Saviors? Consistent Contributors in Social Dilemmas,” Journal
of Personality and Social Psychology 95 (2008) 1340–1353.
professional engineers: Francis J. Flynn, “How Much Should I Give and How Often? The Effects of Generosity and Frequency of
Favor Exchange on Social Status and Productivity,” Academy of Management Journal 46 (2003): 539–553.
Chapter 3: The Ripple Effect
Opening quote: John Andrew Holmes, Wisdom in Small Doses (Lincoln, NE: The University Publishing Company, 1927).
George Meyer: David Owen, “Taking Humor Seriously: George Meyer, the Funniest Man behind the Funniest Show on TV,” New
Yorker, March 13, 2000; Simon Vozick-Levinson, “For Simpsons Writer Meyer, Comedy Is No Laughing Matter,” Harvard
Crimson, June 4, 2003; Eric Spitznagel, “George Meyer,” Believer, September 2004; Mike Sacks, And Here’s the Kicker:
Conversations with 21 Top Humor Writers on Their Craft (Cincinnati: Writers Digest Books, 2009); and personal interviews
with Meyer (June 21, 2012), Tim Long (June 22, 2012), Carolyn Omine (June 27, 2012), and Don Payne (July 12, 2012).
geniuses and genius makers: Liz Wiseman and Greg McKeown, Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter
(New York: HarperBusiness, 2010).
highly creative people: Donald W. MacKinnon, “The Nature and Nurture of Creative Talent,” American Psychologist 17 (1962):
484–495; and “Personality and the Realization of Creative Potential,” American Psychologist 20 (1965): 273–281.
creative scientists: Gregory Feist, “A Structural Model of Scientific Eminence,” Psychological Science 4 (1993): 366–371; and “A
Meta-Analysis of Personality in Scientific and Artistic Creativity,” Personality and Social Psychology Review 2 (1998): 290–
309.
Frank Lloyd Wright: Roger Friedland and Harold Zellman, The Fellowship: The Untold Story of Frank Lloyd Wright and the
Taliesin Fellowship (New York: HarperCollins, 2007), 138; Ed de St. Aubin, “Truth Against the World: A Psychobiographical
Exploration of Generativity in the Life of Frank Lloyd Wright,” in Generativity and Adult Development: How and Why We
Care for the Next Generation, ed. Dan P. McAdams and Ed de St. Aubin (Washington, DC: American Psychological
Association, 1998), 402 and 408; Christopher Hawthorne, “At Wright’s Taliesin, Maybe the Walls Can Talk,” Los Angeles Times,
September 3, 2006; and Brendan Gill, Many Masks: A Life of Frank Lloyd Wright (New York: De Capo Press, 1998), 334.
Edgar Tafel: Joan Altabe, “Fallingwater Is Falling Apart,” Gadfly Online, February 18, 2002; see also Hugh Pearman, “How Many
Wrights Make a Wrong?” Sunday Times Magazine, June 12, 2005.
cardiac surgeons: Robert Huckman and Gary Pisano, “The Firm Specificity of Individual Performance: Evidence from Cardiac
Surgery,” Management Science 52 (2006): 473–488.
Star analysts: Boris Groysberg, Linda-Eling Lee, and Ashish Nanda, “Can They Take It with Them? The Portability of Star Knowledge
Workers’ Performance,” Management Science 54 (2008): 1213–1230; and Boris Groysberg and Linda-Eling Lee, “The Effect
of Colleague Quality on Top Performance: The Case of Security Analysts,” Journal of Organizational Behavior 29 (2008):
1123–1144.
interdependence as a sign of weakness: MarYam G. Hamedani, Hazel R. Markus, and Alyssa S. Fu, “My Nation, My Self:
Divergent Framings of America Influence American Selves,” Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 37 (2011): 350–364.
this makes their groups better off: Nathan P. Podsakoff , Steven W. Whiting, Philip M. Podsakoff , and Brian D. Blume, “Individual-
and Organizational-Level Consequences of Organizational Citizenship Behaviors: A Meta-Analysis,” Journal of Applied
Psychology 94 (2009): 122–141; and Philip M. Podsakoff , Scott B. MacKenzie, Julie B. Paine, and Daniel G. Bachrach,
“Organizational Citizenship Behaviors: A Critical Review of the Theoretical and Empirical Literature and Suggestions for Future
Research,” Journal of Management 26 (2000): 513–563.
expedition behavior: Personal interviews with Jeff Ashby (July 9, 2012) and John Kanengieter (July 13, 2012).
no longer have a target on their backs: Eugene Kim and Theresa M. Glomb, “Get Smarty Pants: Cognitive Ability, Personality, and