Give and Take (Adam Grant) - Actions for Impact
Jensen KoShare
Ch 10: Actions for Impact
1. Test Your Giver Quotient
=> 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
=> 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
=> 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).
=> 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
=> Free resource that offers advice on negotiating salary increases.
7. Join a Community of Givers
=> To find other givers, join a Freecycle community to give away goods and see what other people need.
=> 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.
=> 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.
=> 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
=> Ryan Garcia's year of daily random acts of kindness
9. Help Fund a Project
=> World's largest funding platform for creative projects
=> 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.