{"version":"https://jsonfeed.org/version/1.1","title":"Stephen Braunius","home_page_url":"https://stephen.braunius.org","feed_url":"https://stephen.braunius.org/json/","description":"<p>Seek | Do | Share</p><p>I have always loved to learn new things and put that knowledge to use. 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<strong>(1)</strong> get the right people on the bus – most important to keep the wrong people off the bus – keep takers off the team (in the presence of givers matchers become givers) - no correspondence between agreeability and disagreeability</li>\n<li>watch out for agreeable takers</li>\n<li>most people project their own motivation on others</li>\n<li>you can find out a lot about people by asking them to make projections about the future and actions of others</li>\n<li><strong>(2)</strong> redefine giving - do more 5 minute favors – a micro loan</li>\n<li>100 hours a year is the sweet spot of giving (2–11 hours per week)</li>\n<li><strong>(3)</strong> Encourage help-seeking - the reciprocity ring – have everyone make a request for help in a group and have others volunteer to help (can have requests written anonymously and then have people sign their name on the request sheet)</li>\n<li><a href=\"http://www.humaxnetworks.com\">www.humaxnetworks.com</a></li>\n<li>Let’s start a trend to get people to be “Pro-noid” a fear that other people are wanting to help you</li>\n</ul><p><em>Originally published on stephen.braunius.org</em></p>","content_text":"Global Leadership Summit 2015\n\nSession 3a\n\nAdam Grant\n\nGive and Take: A New Perspective on Leadership\n\nWhat causes paranoia in an organization?\n\n3 categories of human interactions - Takers: think of every interaction as getting from others without giving back - narcassist\n\nsome people become takers when taken advantage of when they were givers or matchers\n\nGivers: enjoy helping others with no strings attached\n\nMatchers: keep an even balance of give and take\n\nmany of us have blind spots when we think we are givers and are actually takers or matchers…can only find out if asking others\n\ntakers rise quickly in an organization and fall quickly\n\nmany matchers gossip about takers to everyone in the organization\n\ntakers hate to see other takers succeed\n\ngivers will be in the top 25% and lowest 25% of the organization\n\ngivers often fail in the short run and succeed in the long run\n\nrecommendations - (1) get the right people on the bus – most important to keep the wrong people off the bus – keep takers off the team (in the presence of givers matchers become givers) - no correspondence between agreeability and disagreeability\n\nwatch out for agreeable takers\n\nmost people project their own motivation on others\n\nyou can find out a lot about people by asking them to make projections about the future and actions of others\n\n(2) redefine giving - do more 5 minute favors – a micro loan\n\n100 hours a year is the sweet spot of giving (2–11 hours per week)\n\n(3) Encourage help-seeking - the reciprocity ring – have everyone make a request for help in a group and have others volunteer to help (can have requests written anonymously and then have people sign their name on the request sheet)\n\nwww.humaxnetworks.com\n\nLet’s start a trend to get people to be “Pro-noid” a fear that other people are wanting to help you\n\nOriginally published on stephen.braunius.org","date_published":"2015-08-06T16:00:00.000Z","date_modified":"2026-10-28T20:32:51.922Z","_microfeed":{"slug":"gls15-session-3a-adam-grant","authors":[{"name":"Stephen Braunius","type":"Person"}],"web_url":"https://stephen.braunius.org/i/gls15-session-3a-adam-grant/","json_url":"https://stephen.braunius.org/i/hEIuhwO35HI/json/","rss_url":"https://stephen.braunius.org/i/hEIuhwO35HI/rss/","guid":"http://stephen.braunius.org/gls15-session-3a-adam-grant/","status":"published","date_published_short":"Thu Aug 06 2015","date_published_ms":1438876800000}}],"_microfeed":{"publisher":{"name":"Stephen Braunius","type":"Person","url":"https://stephen.braunius.org"},"authors":[{"name":"Stephen Braunius","type":"Person"}],"microfeed_version":"1.0.13","base_url":"https://stephen.braunius.org","categories":[],"subscribe_methods":[{"name":"RSS","type":"rss","url":"https://stephen.braunius.org/rss/","image":"https://stephen.braunius.org/assets/brands/subscribe/rss.png","enabled":true,"editable":false,"id":"3ruTYsoZVaf"},{"name":"JSON","type":"json","url":"https://stephen.braunius.org/json/","image":"https://stephen.braunius.org/assets/brands/subscribe/json.png","enabled":true,"editable":false,"id":"5nhVQKje4_K"}],"description_text":"Seek | Do | Share\nI have always loved to learn new things and put that knowledge to use. 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