
Organisational psychologist and professor of management at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.
Give and Take presents evidence that people who default to helping others cluster at both the bottom and the top of performance distributions, and identifies what separates the two groups - directly useful for anyone designing incentives or picking partners. Think Again and Originals cover how people revise beliefs against new evidence and how unfamiliar ideas get championed inside established organisations.
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Givers, takers and matchers, and why givers end up both at the bottom and the top.
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Depression and anxiety traced to lost connections to work, people and values.
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How people champion new ideas, and how leaders can encourage originality.
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Rethinking your beliefs is a skill apart from intelligence, and how to practise it.
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