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The Next Big Idea · 2025-04-03 · 69 min · 12,164 words

WHY GIVERS WIN: Adam Grant Revisits 'Give and Take'

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LinkedIn presents I'm Rufus Griskam and this is Next Big Idea Classics. Today, Adam Grant on why helping others drive success. People who are kind, generous, we might call them givers.

Are happier. They have stronger relationships. They they even live longer. Sure, you may say, but are givers really cut out for the ruthless world we live in? Why do so many merciless takers rise to the top? I'm thinking of everyone from JP Morgan and John D. Rockefeller to the young Steve Jobs and the more recent Elon Musk.

In a doggy dog world Are givers. What's for dinner? Twelve years ago, Adam Grant, who was already a legendary Wharton professor, he was tenure to twenty-eight. Answered this question in a seminal book called

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