The motivations behind today's most successful leaders and entrepreneurs come to a simple yet decisive explanation: there are people who give, people who take, people who match, and people who fake. Our world is filled with these givers, takers, matchers and fakers. Amazingly, those who succeed (not only personally but for their clients and companies) don't take or match. They give. (Although they're not necessarily philanthropic.) GIVE AND TAKE presents the fascinating secrets to givers' success. The results are unequivocal: givers gain big. Jack Welch, Richard Branson, Jon Huntsman Sr. - all of them are givers. In a world in which so many takers such as Bernard Madoff and Raj Rajaratnam have ruined lives and reputations, this book will reassure readers that the real power lies in becoming a giver. Since the vast majority of people aren't born givers, Grant not only presents the case for why givers win, he also offers their hidden strategies for winning.
What is the difference between choking and panicking?Why are there dozens of varieties of mustard but only one variety of ketchup?What call we learn from football players about how to hire teachers?What does hair dye teU US about the history ofthe twentieth century? In the past decade,Malcolm Gladwell has written three books that have radically changed how we understand our world and ourselves.Now he brings together,for the first time,the best of his writing from The New Yorker over the same period.