Todd Webb

“Based on David Hornik’s story, you might predict that givers achieve the worst results—and you’d be right. Research demonstrates that givers sink to the bottom of the success ladder. Across a wide range of important occupations, givers are at a disadvantage: they make others better off but sacrifice their own success in the process.”
― Adam M. Grant, Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success

“givers always score high on other-interest, but they vary in self-interest. There are two types of givers, and they have dramatically different success rates. Selfless givers are people with high other-interest and low self-interest. They give their time and energy without regard for their own needs, and they pay a price for it. Selfless giving is a form of pathological altruism, which is defined by researcher Barbara Oakley as “an unhealthy focus on others to the detriment of one’s own needs,” such that in the process of trying to help others, givers end up harming themselves.”
― Adam M. Grant, Give and Take: From the author of million-copy bestseller THINK AGAIN

“Research by Harvard Business School professor Amy Edmondson shows that in the type of psychologically safe environment that Meyer helped create, people learn and innovate more.* And it’s givers who often create such an environment: in one study, engineers who shared ideas without expecting anything in return were more likely to play a major role in innovation, as they made it safe to exchange information”
― Adam M. Grant, Give and Take: From the author of million-copy bestseller THINK AGAIN

“research shows that givers get extra credit when they offer ideas that challenge the status quo.”
― Adam M. Grant, Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success