Adam Grant on "are you a giver or a taker?"

Adam Grant's take on the false economy of performance review, firing underachievers, and all that other bad stuff that happens to good people.


I suppose it's no accident that the constructs he talks about and in his research include help-givers, help-seekers, givers, takers.

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