ISBN: Rating: 8.⁵⁄₁₀ Read: 2016.02.12

The youngest tenured and highest rated professor of Wharton, (and play a part in Cal Newport’s Deep Work book) Adam Grant is a management thinker and organizational psychologist. The book is about practical advices in why and how to be a better giver. There is correlation between the success and how charitable is someone.

• The 3 main category is: givers, takers or matchers in terms of favours and willingness to help others. Everyone is somewhere in-between.
• The givers are on bottom and top of the ladder in terms of success
• Being a giver means you can make a better foundation of social capital. The weak, sleeping connections are based on trust and give new informations
• Practical bit: If there is a work that needs less than 5 minutes of your time, help him
• Try to admit your faults as soon as possible, in this context you can develop better
• The bigger the requirements of you, the better the developement process
• When motivating, try asking question from their point of view (thus seeding the intrinsic motivation)
• Ask for a help (learning, commitment), but only if your intentions are true
• To avoid burn-out when you’re giving or altruist:
  • Change the context, do not let the situation be a routine
  • Do not do it for sense of duty, for being succesful
  • Weekly 2 hour is good starting point
  • Do not slice the time to small pieces, do it in a batch way
• When you confront with takers, be matcher (aim for being a taker in face of a taker)
• When askin, put it into an altruist context (“This needs to my family…”)
• Rare, common traits are good for forming the symphathy