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.
