Give and Take (Adam Grant) - Actions for Impact

Give and Take (Adam Grant) - Actions for Impact

Jensen Ko

Ch 10: Actions for Impact


1. Test Your Giver Quotient

    Www.giveandtake.com

    => Take a free survey that tests your giver quotient.

     2. Run a Reciprocity Ring

    Get together weekly for 20 minutes to make requests and help one another fulfill them.

    Www.humaxnetworks.com (Warning: This site leads to a gambling website)

    => Offers a suite of social networking tools for individuals and organizations

     3. Help Other People Craft Their Jobs - or Craft Yours to Incorporate More Giving

    Www.jobcrafting.org

    => Job crafting exercise

     4. Start a Love Machine  

    Www.lovemachineinc.com (Warning: This site can't be reached)

    => Enable employees to send a Love message when they appreciated help from a colleague.

     5. Embrace the Five-Minute Favor

    Www.meetup.com/106miles

    => Give honest feedback and make an introduction.

    Go through your Rolodex, LinkedIn, or Facebook network. Identify pairs of people who share an uncommon commonality. Then, pick one pair a week and introduce them by e-mail.

    https://intros.to/  (Warning: This site can't be reached)

    => To gather feedback on the quality of your introductions and make them even more powerful.

    Once a month, reach out to one person with whom you haven't spoken in years (to revitalize dormant ties).

     Www.ventureblog.com

    => To learn more about David Hornik's approach to giving

     6. Practice Powerless Communication, but Become an Advocate

    *Change inhabits from talking to listening, self-promoting to advice-seeking, and advocating to inquiring.

    Www.thepowerofintroverts.com (Warning: This site can't be reached)

    Www.theintrovertedleaderblog.com (Warning: This site can't be reached)

    => For more on the power of powerless communication

     HTTPS://getraised.com

    => Free resource that offers advice on negotiating salary increases.

     7. Join a Community of Givers

    Www.freecycle.org

    => To find other givers, join a Freecycle community to give away goods and see what other people need.

    Www.servicespace.org

    => Inspiring community of givers. Over 400K members and sends over 50 million emails a year. There are three rules: no staff, no fundraising, and no strings attached. Divided into 3 categories: gift economy projects, inspirational content, and volunteer and nonprofit support.

    HelpOthers.org

    => Collect stories of people playing giver tag: do something anonymously for someone else, and leave a smile card inviting them to pay it forward

    Http://extremekindness.com (in Canada) (Warning: This site can't be reached)

    Http://thekindnessoffensive.com (in the UK)

    => For ideas about how to organize your own group of people to perform random acts of kindness, see the initiatives underway.

    Www.bni.com

    => Business networking organization with the motto of "Givers gain"

    Www.thegogiver.com/community (Warning: This page no longer exists but you can check out www.thegogiver.com)

    => A group of people who read The Go-Giver fable by Bob Burg and John David Mann, and decided that giving would be a powerful way to live their professional lives.

     8. Launch a Personal Generosity Experiment

    Www.good.is/post/the-good-30-day-challenge-become-a-good-citizen

    => To give on your own, try the GOOD 30-day challenge

    Http://sashadichter.wordpress.com

    => For more examples of random acts of kindness

    Www.366randomacts.org

    => Ryan Garcia's year of daily random acts of kindness

    9. Help Fund a Project

    Www.kickstarter.com

    => World's largest funding platform for creative projects

    Www.kiva.org

    => Opportunities to make microloans of $25 or more to entrepreneurs in the developing world

    10. Seek Help More Often

    If you want other people to be givers, one of the easiest steps is to ask...By asking for a 5-minute favor, you impose a relatively small burden - and if you ask a matcher, you can count on having an opportunity to reciprocate. Wayne and Cheryl Baker note that people can start the spark of reciprocity by making requests as well as helping others. Help generously and without thought of return; but also ask often for what you need.

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