# Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/books/give-take-helping-others-drives-success/
- Published: 2016-10-21T12:23:30+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**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 – that the best way to get to the top is to focus on
bringing others with you.**
_Give and Take_ changes our fundamental understanding
of why we succeed, offering a new model for our relationships with colleagues, clients
and competitors. Using his own cutting-edge research as a professor at Wharton Business
School, as well as success stories from Hollywood to history, Grant shows that nice
guys need not finish last. 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.[](https://fundraising.co.uk/books/give-take-helping-others-drives-success/void(0))

Named one of the best books of the year 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’s books every leader should read.

More at [adamgrant.net](https://www.adamgrant.net/books/).

## Reviews

“_Give and Take_ is perfectly timed and beautifully weighted … Above all, Grant’s
book is optimistic, a refreshing change after years of reading angry indictments
of fallen corporate idols … [An] excellent book”.
**Andrew Hill** ― _Financial Times_

“_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