Adam Grant, Give and Take author, has some key points:
Generosity in the workplace continues to be more effective than selfishness.
Getting work done is working with, for and through other people.
Takers = kissing up/kicking down…good fakers when dealing with powerful people…talk about “I” and “me”…place blame externally…will “reset” to a different group easily.
Should receive lateral references and references from below.
Conduct situational interviews (hypothetical) instead of behavioral interviews (backward looking) and ask what other people would do…they will project their own motivations onto other people.
Create mission-relevant metrics (not just standard performance evaluations) that shift the meaning of work.
“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give,” Winston Churchill.
Do you give or take?
