Are You a Giver, a Taker or a Matcher?

How do our motives shape the results we achieve, the promotions we get, the salaries we attain? Adam Grant describes the three universal styles of interaction, and take a look at who really ends up at the top...and at the bottom. After years of studying the dynamics of success and productivity in the workplace, Adam Grant discovered a powerful and often overlooked motivator: helping others.

Adam Grant is Wharton’s top-rated professor and author of two New York Times bestselling books—ORIGINALS: How Non-Conformists Move the World and GIVE AND TAKE: A Revolutionary Approach to Success.

In his groundbreaking book Give and Take, top-rated Wharton professor Adam Grant upended decades of conventional motivational thinking with the thesis that giving unselfishly to colleagues or clients can lead to one’s own long-term success. Grant’s research has led hundreds of advice seekers (and HR departments) to his doorstep, and it’s changing the way leaders view their workforce. 

Grant’s new book Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World examines how unconventional thinkers overturn the status quo and champion game-changing ideas.