Give And Take Summary

Dean was a poor humble boy. He was shipped to America as a slave. He was owned as a slave, yet he made a huge influence to America. He became influential to America by his professorship at Columbia University. Dean Lung created a professorship at , innovated by using metacognition, and illuminated by teaching the world about Asian cultures.

Her insights aren’t exactly revolutionary. Certain economic and environmental analysts and activists have known this for a long time. She tells how both undergraduate and graduate business programs have been changing their curriculum accordingly. Top ranking business programs like Harvard, Stanford, and Wharton have been taking a more interdisciplinary approach–teaching ethics, “critical and integrative thinking,” and sometimes history and literature alongside courses you’d expect to find in an MBA program.* The idea, according to author and Harvard business school professor Roger Martin, is to, “teach more about how to be a well-rounded human being who happens to be

Give and Take is a book written by Adam Grant to describe his view of economic drivers and motivations through the lens of his theory of Give and Take. Economics is the study of how people make choices under scarcity and the results of these choices for society and Mr. Grant asserts that success isn’t just achieved by those who take it; but the majority of success goes to individuals who are willing to look out for others at their potential detriment. According to Grant, the perception of givers are often taken advantage, his research indicates that givers make up a majority of those at the top of the success ladder, even though they are more likely to “sacrifice their own interests to benefit others. Give and Take compares to economic theories like scarcity, cost/benefit analysis, equilibrium, and opportunity costs. To better understand the principles of economics through the lens of Give and Take, one must understand the concepts of Grant’s Give and Take as a description of day to day operations as they relate to well established economic theories.

In the futuristic novel, The Giver by Louis Lowry, many of our choices are taken away, leaving us with “Sameness” in which everyone and everything has no color and no choice, everyone is created to be “perfect.” Jonas a young boy is chosen as “The Receiver” in which he learns about leadership and commitment. He also has to make a number of choices to be considered a good leader. In the following paragraphs we will be exploring the things mentioned and comparing and contrasting how the right and wrong choice is determined in our society and in the novel The Giver.

“A good name...is better than silver and gold,”- Proverbs 22:1. This quote is taken from one of the oldest books known to mankind, and although the Bible is controversial, few could deny the truth in the words above. Indeed, a good reputation builds trust, which in turn breeds opportunity. However, a person’s reputation can be ruined by the unkind or even slanderous words of others. That is why people should take into account the 4-way test of things we think, say, or do. For being truthful and fair to others, as well as upbuilding the relationships of of our peers and striving to benefit them, will grant people the opportunity to create a name that is finer than precious metals. To be sure, the 4-way test will prevent the tarnishing of reputations

Peter Thiel, a co-founder of PayPal, has funded his own fellowship to help entrepreneurial students understand that they “may actually be better off leaving college” (Source E). Each of the winners will come to Silicon Valley to incubate their business ideas instead of getting a degree. While critics argue that Thiel’s success is largely based off of networks forged in his days at Stanford, Thiel remains convinced that college turns students into followers and not leaders. He is just one of the many businessmen who have asserted the importance of gaining real-world experience instead of following a core

The idea of Takers and Givers is the people who expand and change the rest of the world without thought of

The Giver has the “power to turn the speaker off!” (100). The Giver holds power over things and people. Because everyone respects him, they will mostly listen to him, giving him some power over little things. The Elders hold a lot of power and when choosing the Receiver if “an Elder reports a dream of uncertainty, that dream has the power to set a candidate aside immediately,” (77).

There exists a common phenomenon in my high school that whenever someone forgot to bring his ruler and one of his classmates kindly lent him once, he would probably not bring his ruler ever after and kept borrowing from other classmates. This is widely accepted as and explained by the aphorism “Give a man an inch and he’ll take a mile”, which indicates that when you are generous to someone, he will demand more. In other words, this saying points out that people are never satisfied. In fact, not only does this aphorism have implications in our daily lives, it also shed light on a broader context in social science such as unemployment insurance policy. In order to determine the validity of this aphorism in the society today, we could conduct an experiment targeting the college students who are randomly assigned into two groups, and examine how they would respond differently after they received a different endowment of money.

What does reputation and a high rise in New York have in common? The reputation of a person is like a ginormous skyscraper in New York. This skyscraper takes years to build, costs a ton of time, and once it is knocked down it is almost impossible to build back up. Something that defines a person’s actions and when it is lost, it is almost impossible to regan, is a reputation. A reputation is defined by, the beliefs or opinions that are generally held about someone or something. In my lifetime so far, I have built up my reputation, and so have you and the people around us. Reputation is a huge aspect of someone’s life, whether in real world or in the fictional world.

Chapter four focused more on recognizing potential. Evaluating future potential is troublesome. As talked about in chapter four, matchers and takers have a hindrance in making important systems they search out just individuals who can profit them today. They don’t make plans for the future. This overlooks underestimated individuals who bloom into extraordinary achievement, whom providers help without desire of return. Give and Take talks about why providers have a tendency to be better judges and designers of ability. Another point that they talked about was the Pygmalion effect, which is a self-fulfilling prophecy where having higher expectations about a person leads to performance increases in that person. The Pygmalion impact happens on the grounds that the instructor responds diversely to a man in view of her desires. To somebody of

Continually, “the Parables of Talents provides us a key example illuminating the principles of investments” (Lin 793). The first key is the idea of profit-making. “The standout message is that profit arising from productivity is to be rewarded, while opportunity costs arising from lack of enterprise will inevitably be punished”

Millett (1989) argues that the PC relationship is “conducted along lines determined by the party of superior. It is this that opens up the way for the exploitation that is so common in patron-client relations” (p.16). I argue that the superiority in this relationship is directly connected to a magnitude of dependency of clients on a patron. A high dependency of clients on a patron hints a dominance of the patron. This further implies that the PC relationship is open for the exploitation. On the other hand, a low dependency of clients on a patron indicates that the patron may have, in some ways, equal relationship. This suggests that the PC relationship might not be exposed for the

From the movie, these are the values and lessons that entrepreneurs can learn from the movie, Tucker the Man and his

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