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Give and Take
- A Revolutionary Approach to Success
- Narrateur(s): Brian Keith Lewis
- Durée: 11 h et 50 min
- Catégories: Affaires et carrières, Gestion et leadership
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- How Non-Conformists Move the World
- Auteur(s): Adam Grant, Sheryl Sandberg - foreword
- Narrateur(s): Fred Sanders, Susan Denaker
- Durée: 10 h et 1 min
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With Give and Take, Adam Grant not only introduced a landmark new paradigm for success but also established himself as one of his generation's most compelling and provocative thought leaders. In Originals, he again addresses the challenge of improving the world but now from the perspective of becoming original: choosing to champion novel ideas and values that go against the grain, battle conformity, and buck outdated traditions. How can we originate new ideas, policies, and practices without risking it all?
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Forward written by a psychopath.
- Écrit par Amazon Customer le 2020-06-21
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The Infinite Game
- Auteur(s): Simon Sinek
- Narrateur(s): Simon Sinek
- Durée: 6 h et 56 min
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Finite games, like football or chess, have known players, fixed rules, and a clear endpoint. The winners and losers are easily identified. Infinite games, games with no finish line, like business or politics, or life itself, have players who come and go. The rules of an infinite game are changeable, while infinite games have no defined endpoint. There are no winners or losers - only ahead and behind. The question is, how do we play to succeed in the game we’re in? In this revelatory new audiobook, Simon Sinek offers a framework for leading with an infinite mindset.
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Just "okay" ...
- Écrit par MMH Toronto le 2019-11-29
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Power Moves
- Lessons from Davos
- Auteur(s): Adam Grant
- Narrateur(s): Adam Grant
- Durée: 3 h et 3 min
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Power is changing. Private corner offices and management by decree are out, as is unquestioned trust in the government and media. These former pillars of traditional power have been replaced by networks of informed citizens who collectively wield more power over their personal lives, employers, and worlds than ever before. So how do you navigate this new landscape and come out on top? Adam Grant, Wharton organizational psychologist, went to the World Economic Forum in Davos, the epicenter of power, and sat down with thought leaders from around the world, to find out.
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Another smash hit by the Wharton Professor
- Écrit par Amazonh Customerh le 2019-02-05
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Option B
- Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy
- Auteur(s): Sheryl Sandberg, Adam Grant
- Narrateur(s): Elisa Donovan
- Durée: 6 h et 14 min
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After the sudden death of her husband, Sheryl Sandberg felt certain that she and her children would never feel pure joy again. "I was in 'the void,'" she writes, "a vast emptiness that fills your heart and lungs and restricts your ability to think or even breathe." Her friend Adam Grant, a psychologist at Wharton, told her there are concrete steps people can take to recover and rebound from life-shattering experiences. We are not born with a fixed amount of resilience. It is a muscle that everyone can build.
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Loved it! wished to hear Sheryl's voice.
- Écrit par Heather le 2018-01-04
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Start with Why
- How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action
- Auteur(s): Simon Sinek
- Narrateur(s): Simon Sinek
- Durée: 7 h et 18 min
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Start with Why shows that the leaders who've had the greatest influence in the world all think, act, and communicate the same way - and it's the opposite of what everyone else does. Sinek calls this powerful idea The Golden Circle, and it provides a framework upon which organizations can be built, movements can be led, and people can be inspired. And it all starts with why.
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A well narrated, deep dive into a simple theory
- Écrit par Olivier le 2018-08-17
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The Road Less Stupid
- Auteur(s): Keith J. Cunningham
- Narrateur(s): Keith J. Cunningham
- Durée: 11 h et 32 min
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Years ago, after suffering a humiliatingly large dumb tax, it dawned on me that I have a seemingly unlimited ability to hit unforced errors and sabotage my business and financial success. I suspect you do, too. It turns out that the key to getting rich (and staying that way) is to avoid doing stupid things. I don't need to do more smart things. I just need to make fewer dumb mistakes. The vast majority of our dumb tax is a direct result of emotional, overly optimistic, and poorly thought out decisions.
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A must read for every business owner and CEO
- Écrit par Utilisateur anonyme le 2018-11-15
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Originals
- How Non-Conformists Move the World
- Auteur(s): Adam Grant, Sheryl Sandberg - foreword
- Narrateur(s): Fred Sanders, Susan Denaker
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With Give and Take, Adam Grant not only introduced a landmark new paradigm for success but also established himself as one of his generation's most compelling and provocative thought leaders. In Originals, he again addresses the challenge of improving the world but now from the perspective of becoming original: choosing to champion novel ideas and values that go against the grain, battle conformity, and buck outdated traditions. How can we originate new ideas, policies, and practices without risking it all?
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Forward written by a psychopath.
- Écrit par Amazon Customer le 2020-06-21
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The Infinite Game
- Auteur(s): Simon Sinek
- Narrateur(s): Simon Sinek
- Durée: 6 h et 56 min
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Finite games, like football or chess, have known players, fixed rules, and a clear endpoint. The winners and losers are easily identified. Infinite games, games with no finish line, like business or politics, or life itself, have players who come and go. The rules of an infinite game are changeable, while infinite games have no defined endpoint. There are no winners or losers - only ahead and behind. The question is, how do we play to succeed in the game we’re in? In this revelatory new audiobook, Simon Sinek offers a framework for leading with an infinite mindset.
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Just "okay" ...
- Écrit par MMH Toronto le 2019-11-29
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Power Moves
- Lessons from Davos
- Auteur(s): Adam Grant
- Narrateur(s): Adam Grant
- Durée: 3 h et 3 min
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Power is changing. Private corner offices and management by decree are out, as is unquestioned trust in the government and media. These former pillars of traditional power have been replaced by networks of informed citizens who collectively wield more power over their personal lives, employers, and worlds than ever before. So how do you navigate this new landscape and come out on top? Adam Grant, Wharton organizational psychologist, went to the World Economic Forum in Davos, the epicenter of power, and sat down with thought leaders from around the world, to find out.
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Another smash hit by the Wharton Professor
- Écrit par Amazonh Customerh le 2019-02-05
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Option B
- Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy
- Auteur(s): Sheryl Sandberg, Adam Grant
- Narrateur(s): Elisa Donovan
- Durée: 6 h et 14 min
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After the sudden death of her husband, Sheryl Sandberg felt certain that she and her children would never feel pure joy again. "I was in 'the void,'" she writes, "a vast emptiness that fills your heart and lungs and restricts your ability to think or even breathe." Her friend Adam Grant, a psychologist at Wharton, told her there are concrete steps people can take to recover and rebound from life-shattering experiences. We are not born with a fixed amount of resilience. It is a muscle that everyone can build.
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Loved it! wished to hear Sheryl's voice.
- Écrit par Heather le 2018-01-04
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Start with Why
- How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action
- Auteur(s): Simon Sinek
- Narrateur(s): Simon Sinek
- Durée: 7 h et 18 min
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Start with Why shows that the leaders who've had the greatest influence in the world all think, act, and communicate the same way - and it's the opposite of what everyone else does. Sinek calls this powerful idea The Golden Circle, and it provides a framework upon which organizations can be built, movements can be led, and people can be inspired. And it all starts with why.
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A well narrated, deep dive into a simple theory
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The Road Less Stupid
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Years ago, after suffering a humiliatingly large dumb tax, it dawned on me that I have a seemingly unlimited ability to hit unforced errors and sabotage my business and financial success. I suspect you do, too. It turns out that the key to getting rich (and staying that way) is to avoid doing stupid things. I don't need to do more smart things. I just need to make fewer dumb mistakes. The vast majority of our dumb tax is a direct result of emotional, overly optimistic, and poorly thought out decisions.
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A must read for every business owner and CEO
- Écrit par Utilisateur anonyme le 2018-11-15
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A Promised Land
- Auteur(s): Barack Obama
- Narrateur(s): Barack Obama
- Durée: 29 h et 10 min
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In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both his political education and the landmark moments of the first term of his historic presidency - a time of dramatic transformation and turmoil.
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Obama reads this himself!
- Écrit par Meredith le 2020-11-17
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Talking to Strangers
- What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know
- Auteur(s): Malcolm Gladwell
- Narrateur(s): Malcolm Gladwell
- Durée: 8 h et 42 min
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How did Fidel Castro fool the CIA for a generation? Why did Neville Chamberlain think he could trust Adolf Hitler? Why are campus sexual assaults on the rise? Do television sitcoms teach us something about the way we relate to each other that isn't true? While tackling these questions, Malcolm Gladwell was not solely writing a book for the page. He was also producing for the ear. In the audiobook version of Talking to Strangers, you’ll hear the voices of people he interviewed - scientists, criminologists, military psychologists.
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Not as advertised
- Écrit par Adam Chan le 2020-02-06
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Deep Work
- Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
- Auteur(s): Cal Newport
- Narrateur(s): Jeff Bottoms
- Durée: 7 h et 44 min
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Deep work is the ability to focus without distraction on a cognitively demanding task. It's a skill that allows you to quickly master complicated information and produce better results in less time. Deep work will make you better at what you do and provide the sense of true fulfillment that comes from craftsmanship. In short, deep work is like a superpower in our increasingly competitive 21st-century economy.
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So good. An essential read.
- Écrit par Amazon Customer le 2018-08-02
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How to Be a Power Connector
- The 5+50+100 Rule for Turning Your Business Network into Profits
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- Narrateur(s): Dina Pearlman
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As anyone in business knows, strategic planning is critical to achieving long-term success. In How to Be a Power Connector, super-networker Judy Robinett argues that strategic relationship planning should be your top priority.
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Good to Great
- Why Some Companies Make the Leap...And Others Don't
- Auteur(s): Jim Collins
- Narrateur(s): Jim Collins
- Durée: 10 h et 1 min
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Built To Last, the defining management study of the 90s, showed how great companies triumph over time and how long-term sustained performance can be engineered into the DNA of an enterprise from the very beginning. But what about companies that are not born with great DNA? How can good companies, mediocre companies, even bad companies achieve enduring greatness?
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A foundational book ...
- Écrit par MMH Toronto le 2017-10-12
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Greenlights
- Auteur(s): Matthew McConaughey
- Narrateur(s): Matthew McConaughey
- Durée: 6 h et 42 min
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I’ve been in this life for 50 years, been trying to work out its riddle for 42, and been keeping diaries of clues to that riddle for the last 35. Notes about successes and failures, joys and sorrows, things that made me marvel, and things that made me laugh out loud. How to be fair. How to have less stress. How to have fun. How to hurt people less. How to get hurt less. How to be a good man. How to have meaning in life. How to be more me.
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Alright Alright Alright
- Écrit par Daniel le 2020-10-20
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Find Your Why
- A Practical Guide for Discovering Purpose for You and Your Team
- Auteur(s): Simon Sinek, David Mead, Peter Docker
- Narrateur(s): Stephen Shedletzky, Simon Sinek
- Durée: 4 h et 56 min
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Start with Why has led millions of listeners to rethink everything they do in their personal lives, their careers, and their organizations. Now, Find Your Why picks up where Start with Why left off. It tells you how to apply Simon Sinek's powerful insights so you can find more inspiration at work - and, in turn, inspire those around you. Whether you've just started your first job, are leading a team, or are CEO of your own company, the exercises in this audiobook will guide you along a path to long-term success and fulfillment - for both you and your colleagues.
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Beautiful companion to the book!
- Écrit par Christina Valicek le 2018-09-15
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How I Built This
- The Unexpected Paths to Success from the World's Most Inspiring Entrepreneurs
- Auteur(s): Guy Raz
- Narrateur(s): Guy Raz
- Durée: 10 h et 31 min
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Great ideas often come from a simple spark: A soccer player on the New Zealand national team notices all the unused wool his country produces and figures out a way to turn them into shoes (Allbirds). A former Buddhist monk decides the very best way to spread his mindfulness teachings is by launching an app (Headspace). A sandwich cart vendor finds a way to reuse leftover pita bread and turns it into a multimillion-dollar business (Stacy’s Pita Chips).
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Really Great Book and Structure
- Écrit par Utilisateur anonyme le 2020-10-20
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No Rules Rules
- Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention
- Auteur(s): Reed Hastings, Erin Meyer
- Narrateur(s): Jason Culp, Allyson Ryan
- Durée: 9 h et 42 min
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Here for the first time, Hastings and Erin Meyer, best-selling author of The Culture Map and one of the world's most influential business thinkers, dive deep into the controversial philosophies at the heart of the Netflix psyche, which have generated results that are the envy of the business world. Drawing on hundreds of interviews with current and past Netflix employees from around the globe and never-before-told stories of trial and error from his own career, No Rules Rules is the full, fascinating, and untold story of a unique company making its mark on the world.
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Incredible.
- Écrit par Utilisateur anonyme le 2021-01-15
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Grit
- The Power of Passion and Perseverance
- Auteur(s): Angela Duckworth
- Narrateur(s): Angela Duckworth
- Durée: 9 h et 22 min
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In this must-listen book for anyone striving to succeed, pioneering psychologist Angela Duckworth shows parents, educators, students, and businesspeople - both seasoned and new - that the secret to outstanding achievement is not talent but a focused persistence called "grit". Why do some people succeed and others fail? Sharing new insights from her landmark research on grit, MacArthur "genius" Angela Duckworth explains why talent is hardly a guarantor of success.
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Very repetitive
- Écrit par Cam Birtwell le 2018-04-01
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Humanocracy
- Creating Organizations as Amazing as the People Inside Them
- Auteur(s): Gary Hamel, Michele Zanini
- Narrateur(s): Graham Halstead
- Durée: 11 h et 14 min
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In a world of unrelenting change and unprecedented challenges, we need organizations that are resilient and daring. Unfortunately, most organizations, overburdened by bureaucracy, are sluggish and timid. In Humanocracy, Gary Hamel and Michele Zanini make a passionate, data-driven argument for excising bureaucracy and replacing it with something better. Drawing on more than a decade of research and packed with practical examples, Humanocracy lays out a detailed blueprint for creating organizations that are as inspired and ingenious as the human beings inside them.
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great book
- Écrit par Utilisateur anonyme le 2020-09-25
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Leaders Eat Last
- Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don't
- Auteur(s): Simon Sinek
- Narrateur(s): Simon Sinek
- Durée: 9 h et 23 min
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Too many workplaces are driven by cynicism, paranoia, and self-interest. But the best ones foster trust and cooperation because their leaders build what Sinek calls a "Circle of Safety" that separates the security inside the team from the challenges outside. Sinek illustrates his ideas with fascinating true stories that range from the military to big business, from government to investment banking.
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Great Book
- Écrit par Mike le 2020-07-23
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An innovative, groundbreaking book that will captivate listeners of Malcolm Gladwell, Daniel Pink, The Power of Habit, and Quiet
For generations, we have focused on the individual drivers of success: passion, hard work, talent, and luck. But today, success is increasingly dependent on how we interact with others. It turns out that at work, most people operate as either takers, matchers, or givers. Whereas takers strive to get as much as possible from others and matchers aim to trade evenly, givers are the rare breed of people who contribute to others without expecting anything in return.
Using his own pioneering research as Wharton's youngest tenured professor, Grant shows that these styles have a surprising impact on success. Although some givers get exploited and burn out, the rest achieve extraordinary results across a wide range of industries. Combining cutting-edge evidence with captivating stories, this landmark book shows how one of America's best networkers developed his connections, why the creative genius behind one of the most popular shows in television history toiled for years in anonymity, how a basketball executive responsible for multiple draft busts transformed his franchise into a winner, and how we could have anticipated Enron's demise four years before the company collapsed - without ever looking at a single number.
Praised by best-selling authors such as Dan Pink, Tony Hsieh, Dan Ariely, Susan Cain, Dan Gilbert, Gretchen Rubin, Bob Sutton, David Allen, Robert Cialdini, and Seth Godin - as well as senior leaders from Google, McKinsey, Merck, Estée Lauder, Nike, and NASA - Give and Take highlights what effective networking, collaboration, influence, negotiation, and leadership skills have in common. This landmark book opens up an approach to success that has the power to transform not just individuals and groups, but entire organizations and communities.
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- Beckah Bartel
- 2018-12-22
challenging the status quo
narrator voice inflection was good ... however accents distracting. Overall, really good read and thought-provoking
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- Andrew Zuo
- 2020-03-01
Wishy Washy And Lacks Substance
Givers and takers. An interesting premise for a book. But the execution... leaves something to be desired. The entire book is just a bunch of anecdotes of 'givers' and 'takers'. But the terms giver and taker are thrown around so loosely that I started to wonder if these are actual categories or manifestations of deeper traits like psychopathy and openness. And the book doesn't even say anything that meaningful about them. "People like others that are kind to them". Oh, you don't say. There is a small patch of interestingness on how giving can help you become more productive. But this is more general life advice than anything related to givers and takers.
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- G. Haran
- 2020-02-25
Sheds light on how to be a giver without burning out
I was pleasantly surprised to learn that there were multiple ways to be a giver and that some don’t have to bring you down. It also teaches how to not be a doormat.
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- Jeff Skinner
- 2020-01-18
Awesome book!
It has a great perspective on the different types of people and gives great insight on how to spot the different types. I was blown away, simply amazing!!
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- PH
- 2019-09-16
So refreshing
Finally a book that gives data to support my "Kindness is magic" theory for running my business.
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- Lionhearted
- 2018-09-13
Amazing audio book experience
This is my first Audible book that I'm reading. I'm in love. Completely. The Audible iPhone app could be better (I'm experiencing some lags often.) #Audible1
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- tobalsan
- 2018-01-21
Excellent livre qui inspire la générosité
Rien que par le fait que ce livre inspire la générosité, c'est déjà une excellente oeuvre. Mais la manière dont sont racontées les histoires est bien rythmée, prenante, intéressante et parfois même touchante. Bien que le livre soit assez long (presque 12h), j'ai passé un bon moment et surtout appris énormément de choses.
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- Cynthia
- 2013-04-15
Give ‘Til it Helps - Your Company
My first reaction to Andrew M. Grant’s “Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Management” was “You’ve got to be kidding! Are you really telling me that if we hold hands, sing ‘Kumbaya’, and share our shovels in the sandbox, everything will be okay at the office?”
That’s not what Grant was saying - at all – but it took an uncomfortably long time for him to get to that point.
Grant advances the position that those who give generously, both professionally and personally, are more likely to be successful than “takers” (about 15% of people) or “matchers” ( about 70%). It’s a compelling argument, and Grant backs up his position with widely regarded studies and valid statistics. According to Grant, a business organization is well served by finding and developing givers (sharers), whose collaborative work with other givers often returns far more than the work of takers or matchers.
Grant also points out an important fault of givers: Statistically, givers are also more likely to be low achievers or failures, if they become “doormats.” Grant has some valuable tips for doormats to recognize takers, and extract themselves from “no sum” or “negative sum” relationships.
I listened to “Give and Take” on the heels of Sheryl Sandberg’s 2013 “Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to Lead” I wondered until halfway through the book if Grant was even considering women in the workplace. Many of the “giver” techniques he recommends are the very techniques that, when used by women leaders, erode whatever leadership foundation they have.
Grant eventually points out that the communication techniques he is recommending will not work for anyone presenting in a leadership role (at a board meeting, for example), although they will work for a leader as a team member.
Grant has some invaluable tips for how women can effectively negotiate higher salaries and gain respect in an organization, even while they are “givers” (or “sharers”, in my parlance).
This book didn’t have the impact “Lean In” did for me, but it had some invaluable suggestions I will incorporate into my life. I am now much more confident about being a “giver” and recognizing “takers”.
I had an unexpected issue with the narration of this book: Brian Keith Davis, the reader, is so smooth, he reminded me of Casey Kasem, the host of American Top 40. I listened to that radio show every Sunday night as a teenager, eagerly waiting to find out what the new Number 1 song was. Several times, after an especially positive anecdote in “Give and Take”, I expected to hear a current pop song. As I write this review, the Number 1 Billboard song Macklemore and Ryan Lewis’ “Thrift Shop.” That is especially apropos for this book.
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- Justin & Lindsay
- 2015-08-25
Could have been a 6 hour book
Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?
Some good stuff but seems like there was lots of fluff. He told 10 stories about one item felt like lots of fluff. The concepts are good but just long.
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- Matt Dallas
- 2015-11-26
recycled material
since I just finished this, my thoughts are very fresh and, I assume, will change over time as I reflect on the material...I have heard so many great things about this book, but it seems that it was essentially a book report around the "giving" theme of other, more original work. This reinforced the benefit I gained by reading all of the referenced books, and connected those books around this theme, but provided little new value. However, maybe the genius of the book isn't that Mr Grant has new ideas, but that he wanted to shine a spotlight on other great works and GIVE them more exposure. My guess is that if I was one of the authors of the several books referenced, I'd be flattered and happy to hear my work so highly spoken of.
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- Niels
- 2014-01-30
Good guys don't alway finish last
What did you love best about Give and Take?
Listening to this book was refreshing, exciting and rewarding. Why? Because it shows that success doesn't need to come at the expense of others but by helping others.
Personally, I always questioned wether my urge to help others was affecting my success business in a negative way. Maybe I just needed to become a more tough and less compassionate entrepreneur? Now I know that being kind and giving to others can lead to bigger success than being unkind and taking from others.
Being a (very) successful giver is possible, that's great news!
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- Timothy Lin
- 2019-06-14
Great perspective on reciprocity style
I think it’s wonderful that the author writes this book. The first 1/3rd was a required read for class and was wonderful to explain the basics. The rest of the book has gems and lots of interesting research findings on how to create a more generous society. My only gripe with the book is that the author often associates too much behavior to reciprocity styles, but his perspective vs. mine. Where he associates something to a reciprocity style, I would like to think there’s more internal motivation based on a person’s values when no one is watching... but it’s still really good to hear his take on why people do what they do. Definitely an above average book despite its small flaws though imho!
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- Julia
- 2013-04-15
A few real surprises
Would you listen to Give and Take again? Why?
I'll be listening to this book again, at least once. I will be putting time into some changes based on the compassion fatigue concept and the lek concept -- really new ideas for me.
Any additional comments?
The idea that people don't burn out due to overwork but instead underwin -- I'm going to be putting that into action right away.
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- Socialight
- 2015-03-30
Oversimplified
Hate it. Not the study of success. Putting down Michael Jordan compared to some nobody that was "kind". B.S. Too woo woo for me. Black and white "giver and taker" styles. Really annoyed by this book.
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- A. Yoshida
- 2013-08-23
Not a persuasive book
This wasn't a persuasive book about how you can be a Giver and still be successful. There were a lot of anecdotal stories of how Givers overcame obstacles and became successful. And it's comforting to hear that nice people can win. However, both Givers and Takers have been successful and have failed. There aren't any facts to back up that being a Giver is better overall in the long run.
If you are a Giver, the book does point out some vulnerabilities to be aware of, such as too trusting, too empathetic, and too timid. It is followed by a little bit of practical advice, such as offering help to someone and see how the person responds (also give unsolicited, reciprocate with same level of time or effort, or only take). If the person is a Taker, then stop offering help. The relationship will naturally diminish as the Taker finds no value in it when you're not a pushover.
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- J. Cahill
- 2019-09-14
Finally - A Way to Measure Giving!
This book was an excellent book because it dared to present to all of us the power of selfless acts. Too often we are informed that the only way to measure success is what you go and do for yourself. This book highlights evidence that you can measure and quantify your success by what you do for others. Thank you!
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- 2020-05-16
A book that should have been an article or a paper
A classic bloated fluff piece that when boiled down to what people actually need to read is no longer than 20 pages max.
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