Listen Again: Originals — How Innovators Achieve Success with Adam Grant

The team is working on new episodes of the Gartner Talent Angle
podcast, which will start rolling out in a few weeks. In the
meantime, new host Dion Love shares some of the team’s favorite
episodes of the show. This episode originally aired in April,
2016. 


For generations, we have focused on the individual drivers of
success: passion, hard work, talent, and luck. But today, success
is increasingly dependent on how we interact with others. Through
his research, Adam Grant argues that at work, most people operate
as either takers, matchers, or givers. Whereas takers strive to
get as much as possible from others and matchers aim to trade
evenly, givers are the rare breed of people who contribute to
others without expecting anything in return. Using his own
pioneering research as Wharton's youngest tenured professor,
Grant shows that these styles have a surprising impact on
success. Although some givers get exploited and burn out, the
rest achieve extraordinary results across a wide range
of industries.