Mr Grant explained how takers, givers and matchers perform this pygmalion effect: Takers fail to provide encouraging support to other people because they assume that these people are also takers and they place little trust to them. They see other people as a threat especially if they perform well. Matchers on the other hand usually wait to see evidence of performance first before helping other people with the expectation of returned favours later on. The Givers don’t wait for evidence; they are optimistic and see everyone as bloomers, they are not threatened by people with high potential. All people are diamonds in the rough until proven otherwise. According to Mr Grant, agreeable givers are easy to find but the disagreeable givers he identified as the diamonds in the rough are hard to find. They are the most undervalued people in any organization because they are the ones who give dangerous and analytical feedback that no one wants to hear but everyone needs to …show more content…
They decide more on behalf of all the others rather than for themselves. Givers care about the performance of the group and focus more on the consequences of their decisions, and work well to make it better. Takers ego threat more than givers; and are more concerned about protecting their reputation not the others, they always hide the prospect of failure in their decisions. They always want to be called the smartest people in the room.
In the book Give and Take, Mr Grant said about “being otherish means being willing to give more than you receive, but still keeping your own interests in sight, using them as a guide for choosing when, where, how, and to whom you give.….when concern for others is coupled with a healthy dose of concern for the self, givers are less prone to burning out and getting burned – and they’re better positioned to flourish”.
A quote from Mr Adam Grant’s book said that “The people most likely to rise to the top are often those who give the most to others--people Grant calls "givers,' as opposed to the "takers' who try to get as much as possible from others and the "matchers' who try to give and take in equal amounts.” He gave us some research-tested actions to become successful givers in work and in our