Name: Give and Take
Rating: 4.25 (6 reviews)
Author: Adam Grant

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 For generations, we have focused on the individual drivers of success: passion, hard work, talent, and luck.  But in today’s dramatically reconfigured world, success is increasingly dependent on how we interact with others.  In Give & Take, Adam Grant—an award-winning researcher and Wharton’s highest-rated professor—examines the surprising forces that shape why some people rise to the top while other sink to the bottom. 

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