我们常认为个人成功关键在于：努力、天赋和运气。而今天，亚当·格兰特在他划时代的著作中展示：成功在很大程度上取决于我们怎样和别人打交道。
格兰特探讨了最成功人士的行为动机，以真实故事阐述他们的行为模式并找出实现持久成功的革命性方法。他带我们去看最佳社交能手如何拓展交际圈，了解最受欢迎的电视节目背后的创意天才为何甘愿长期默默付出，而安然公司的倒塌，以及这些年不断倒下的企业偶像，使我们不得不重视这些现象背后真正的缘由。
他发现，我们大多数人能被划为三类：付出者、互利者和获取者。获取者只关注谋求利益，互利者愿意等价交换可预期的好处，而付出者则是不同寻常的一类人：他们乐于分享，不求回报。在《沃顿商学院最受欢迎的成功课》一书中，格兰特一反直觉地指出，最善于付出的人才是最成功的人。能带领公司走向辉煌，在金字塔顶屹立不倒的人，并不是获取者和互利者，反而是付出者。而究竟是哪些因素使一部分付出者成了垫脚石，另一部分却跃至成功的顶端？格兰特对此深入挖掘，指引我们发展最适合自己的社交风格，选择最佳且最有效的付出方式，以实现最可持续的成功。
格兰特指出，未来在“分享”与“合作”的时代主题下，只有付出者的影响力，才能真正带来稳定而持久的力量！
Give and Take highlights what effective networking, collaboration, influence, negotiation, and leadership skills have in common.
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.
《绝非偶然》的作者埃利奥特·阿伦森是二十世纪最杰出的心理学家之一，曾荣获美国心理协会全部三项大奖：杰出教学奖、杰出著作奖、杰出研究奖。他所著的《社会性动物》被誉为“美国社会心理学的《圣经》”。
一个性格腼腆、资质平平的小男孩，在无财无势的家庭中长大，如何成为举世闻名的社会心理学家？年少时哈佛大学望洋兴叹的“笨小子”，十年后竟成为哈佛大学教授？在《绝非偶然》一书中，阿伦森用自己的经历阐明了社会心理学的真义：无论个人还是社会，都可以向好的方向发展，一个人可以不受儿时不愉快经历和个性缺陷的束缚，通过自我完善成就可能的自我。
此外，作者在书中详述了社会心理学许多最具代表性的实验，从理论假设到实验过程再到最后的结论分析，每一步都清晰可见。如果你对社会心理学实验和理论感兴趣，这本书无疑是一顿饕餮大餐。
How does a boy from a financially and intellectually impoverished background grow up to become a Harvard researcher, win international acclaim for his groundbreaking work, and catch fire as a pioneering psychologist? As the only person in the history of the American Psychological Association to have won all three of its highest honors–for distinguished research, teaching, and writing– Elliot Aronson is living proof that humans are capable of capturing the power of the situation and conquering the prison of personality.A personal and compelling look into Aronson’s profound contributions to the field of social psychology, Not by Chance Alone is a lifelong story of human potential and the power of social change.
你厌恶频繁收到的推送消息，却仍然忍不住拿起手机查看。你希望保持身材，却对甜食欲罢不能。你明知汽车的机油要更换，却总是一拖再拖……为什么你的行为总是与真实意愿相悖，为什么你很难做出有效的决策？
今天的世界更加复杂，需要我们更加频繁地做出决定，而我们的大脑却在进化过程中形成了注意力不集中和惰性的倾向，这导致我们的行为和意愿存在偏差。所以，人们做出拙劣选择的原因并不总是错误的想法、片面的信息或激励不足，而是无法将良好的意愿转变为积极的行为。在此基础上，《决策的力量》提供了7个行之有效的策略：主动要求他人做出选择、预先承诺、自愿退出、融入他人思维、重构选项、巧借东风、合理简化。
这7个策略共同构成了一个完美的行为改善方案。与其他改善行为的方法相比，这一方案并非要改变人们的意愿，而是要帮助人们发现心中潜藏的良好意愿，做出科学的决策，实现自己的目标，并影响他人的行为和决策过程。
Going beyond the bestsellers Predictably Irrational and Thinking, Fast and Slow, the first “how to” guide that shows you how to help customers, employees, coworkers, and clients make better choices to get what they truly want.
Of the ten million bits of information our brains process each second, only fifty bits are devoted to conscious thought. Because our brains are wired to be inattentive, we often choose without thinking, acting against our own interests—what we truly want. As the former Chief Scientist of Express Scripts, a Fortune 25 healthcare company dedicated to making the use of prescription medications safer and more affordable, Bob Nease is an expert on applying behavioral sciences to health care. Now, he applies his knowledge to the wider world, providing important practical solutions marketers, human resources professionals, teachers, and even parents can use to improve the behavior of others around them, and get the positive results they want.
