Backed up by anecdotes of success across a range of industries and scenarios, as well as numerous academic studies, the arguments of Give and Take are grounded in ample research … His writing style draws you in … [I]t’s an interesting take on game theory in a practical context, and the notion that givers can succeed is an inspirational one (City A.M.)

Give and Take just might be the most important book of this young century. As insightful and entertaining as Malcolm Gladwell at his best, this book has profound implications for how we manage our careers, deal with our friends and relatives, raise our children, and design our institutions. This gem is a joy to read, and it shatters the myth that greed is the path to success (Robert Sutton, author of The No Asshole Rule and Good Boss, Bad Boss)

Give and Take is a truly exhilarating book – the rare work that will shatter your assumptions about how the world works and keep your brain firing for weeks after you’ve turned the last page (Daniel H. Pink, author of Drive and To Sell is Human)

Give and Take is brimming with life-changing insights. As brilliant as it is wise, this is not just a book – it’s a new and shining worldview. Adam Grant is one of the great social scientists of our time, and his extraordinary new book is sure to be a bestseller (Susan Cain, author of Quiet)

Give and Take cuts through the clutter of clichés in the marketplace and provides a refreshing new perspective on the art and science of success. Adam Grant has crafted a unique, ‘must have’ toolkit for accomplishing goals through collaboration and reciprocity (William P. Lauder, Executive Chairman, The Estée Lauder Companies Inc.)

Give and Take is a pleasure to read, extraordinarily informative, and will likely become one of the classic books on workplace leadership and management. It has changed the way I see my personal and professional relationships, and has encouraged me to be a more thoughtful friend and colleague (Jeff Ashby, NASA space shuttle commander)

With Give and Take, Adam Grant has marshalled compelling evidence for a revolutionary way of thinking about personal success in business and in life. Besides the fundamentally uplifting character of the case he makes, readers will be delighted by the truly engaging way he makes it. This is a must read (Robert Cialdini, author of Influence)

Give and Take is a brilliant, well-documented, and motivating debunking of ‘good guys finish last’! I’ve noticed for years that generosity generates its own kind of equity, and Grant’s fascinating research and engaging style have created not only a solid validation of that principle but also practical wisdom and techniques for utilizing it more effectively. This is a super manifesto for getting meaningful things done, sustainably (David Allen, author of Getting Things Done)

Packed with cutting-edge research, concrete examples, and deep insight, Give and Take offers extraordinarily thought-provoking – and often surprising – conclusions about how our interactions with others drive our success and happiness. This important and compulsively-readable book deserves to be a huge success (Gretchen Rubin, author of The Happiness Project)

Why givers – not takers or marchers – are life’s most successful winners.

Everybody knows that hard work, luck and talent each plays a role in our working lives. In his landmark book, Adam Grant illuminates the importance of a fourth, increasingly critical factor – our reciprocity, the way we interact with others when exchanging value. Give and Take changes our fundamental understanding of why we succeed, offering a new model for our relationships with colleagues, clients and competitors. It demolishes the argument of the ‘me first’ worldview and shows that the best way to get to the top is to focus not on your solo journey but on bringing others with you.

Engaging, intriguing and filled with surprising success stories from history to Hollywood, Give and Take presents an approach to work, team building, productivity and profitability that is nothing short of revolutionary. We have been taught to think that people who give without expecting anything in return are at risk of being exploited, or burning out, but the truth is that they are often the most successful people in any given field.

Using his own cutting-edge research as a professor at Wharton Business School, Adam Grant shows how helping others can lead to greater personal success. He demonstrates how smart givers avoid becoming doormats, and why this kind of success has the power to transform not just individuals and groups, but entire organisations and communities.

We are taught to think that people who give without expecting anything in return are at risk of being exploited – but the truth is that they are often the most successful.

Everybody knows that hard work, luck and talent each plays a role in getting ahead. In his landmark book, Adam Grant illuminates the importance of a fourth factor. He shows that the best way to get to the top is not to focus on your solo journey, but on bringing others with you.

Filled with surprising success stories from history to Hollywood, Give and Take demolishes the ‘me first’ worldview and presents an approach to work, team-building and productivity that is nothing short of revolutionary.

Using his own cutting-edge research as a professor at Wharton Business School, Adam Grant shows how smart givers avoid becoming doormats, and why his route to success has the power to transform not just individuals, but entire organisations and communities.

Adam Grant is Wharton’s top-rated teacher. He has been recognised as one of HR’s most influential international thinkers, Business Week‘s favourite professor, one of the world’s forty best business professors under forty. Grant was tenured at Wharton while still in his twenties and has been honoured with the Excellence in Teaching Award for every class he has taught. His first book, Give and Take, was a New York Times bestseller translated into twenty-seven languages and named one of the best books of 2013 by Amazon, Apple, the Financial Times, and the Wall Street Journal–as well as one of Oprah’s riveting reads, Fortune’s must-read business books, Harvard Business Review’s ideas that shaped management, and the Washington Post’sbooks every leader should read. His speaking and consulting clients include Google, the NFL, Merck, Goldman Sachs, Disney Pixar, the United Nations, and the U.S. Army and Navy. He serves as a contributing op-ed writer for the New York Times and was profiled in a cover story by its magazine. Author of the New York Times bestseller Originals, Grant earned his Ph.D. in organisational psychology from the University of Michigan and his B.A. from Harvard College.