Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller
Listed as a Times Self-Help Book of the Year

'Brimming with life-changing insights' Susan Cain, author of Quiet

'Excellent' Financial Times

Everybody knows that hard work, luck and talent each plays a role in our working lives. In his landmark book, Adam Grant illuminates the importance of a fourth, increasingly critical factor - that the best way to get to the top is to focus on bringing others with you.

Give and Take changes our fundamental understanding of why we succeed, offering a new model for our relationships with colleagues, clients and competitors. Using his own cutting-edge research as a professor at Wharton Business School, as well as success stories from Hollywood to history, Grant shows that nice guys need not finish last. He demonstrates how smart givers avoid becoming doormats, and why this kind of success has the power to transform not just individuals and groups, but entire organisations and communities.

In 2015 Sheryl Sandberg’s husband, Dave Goldberg, died suddenly at the age of forty-eight. Sandberg and her two young children were devastated, and she was certain that their lives would never have real joy or meaning again.

Just weeks later, Sandberg was talking with a friend about the first father-child activity without a father. They came up with a plan for someone to fill in. “But I want Dave,” she cried. Her friend put his arm around her and said, “Option A is not available. So let’s just kick the shit out of Option B.”

Everyone experiences some form of Option B. We all deal with loss: jobs lost, loves lost, lives lost. The question is not whether these things will happen but how we face them when they do.

Thoughtful, honest, revealing and warm, OPTION B weaves Sandberg’s experiences coping with adversity with new findings from Adam Grant and other social scientists. The book features stories of people who recovered from personal and professional hardship, including illness, injury, divorce, job loss, sexual assault and imprisonment. These people did more than recover—many of them became stronger.

OPTION B offers compelling insights for dealing with hardships in our own lives and helping others in crisis. It turns out that post-traumatic growth is common—even after the most devastating experiences many people don’t just bounce back but actually bounce forward. And pre-traumatic growth is also possible: people can build resilience even if they have not experienced tragedy. Sandberg and Grant explore how we can raise strong children, create resilient communities and workplaces, and find meaning, love and joy in our lives.

“Dave’s death changed me in very profound ways,” Sandberg writes. “I learned about the depths of sadness and the brutality of loss. But I also learned that when life sucks you under, you can kick against the bottom, break the surface and breathe again.”

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Titles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction, introducing language learners to bestselling authors and compelling content.

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Being an original thinker can change the world. Learn how to recognise a great idea, to speak up for yourself, to choose the right time to act, and to manage fear and doubt by standing out from the crowd.

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"This brilliant book will shatter your assumptions about what it takes to improve and succeed. I wish I could go back in time and gift it to my younger self. It would've helped me find a more joyful path to progress."
-Serena Williams, 23-time Grand Slam singles tennis champion

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Again illuminates how we can elevate ourselves and others to unexpected heights.

We live in a world that's obsessed with talent. We celebrate gifted students in school, natural athletes in sports, and child prodigies in music. But admiring people who start out with innate advantages leads us to overlook the distance we ourselves can travel. We underestimate the range of skills that we can learn and how good we can become. We can all improve at improving. And when opportunity doesn't knock, there are ways to build a door.

Hidden Potential offers a new framework for raising aspirations and exceeding expectations. Adam Grant weaves together groundbreaking evidence, surprising insights, and vivid storytelling that takes us from the classroom to the boardroom, the playground to the Olympics, and underground to outer space. He shows that progress depends less on how hard you work than how well you learn. Growth is not about the genius you possess-it's about the character you develop. Grant explores how to build the character skills and motivational structures to realize our own potential, and how to design systems that create opportunities for those who have been underrated and overlooked.

Many writers have chronicled the habits of superstars who accomplish great things. This book reveals how anyone can rise to achieve greater things. The true measure of your potential is not the height of the peak you've reached, but how far you've climbed to get there.

Wer noch mal nachdenkt, geht schlauer durchs Leben
Intelligenz wird üblicherweise verstanden als die Fähigkeit, zu denken und zu lernen. Doch in einer Welt, die sich rasant verändert, brauchen wir etwas ganz anderes genauso dringend: die Fähigkeit, Gedachtes zu überdenken und sich von Erlerntem wieder zu lösen.

Anhand zahlreicher Beispiele aus dem täglichen Leben zeigt der internationale Bestsellerautor Adam Grant: Nur wer die Komfortzone fester Überzeugungen verlässt, wer Zweifel und unterschiedliche Ansichten zulässt, ohne sich in seinem Ego bedroht zu fühlen, eröffnet sich die großartige Chance, wirklich neue Erkenntnisse zu gewinnen.

Wissen ist Macht. Erkennen, was wir nicht wissen können, ist Weisheit

»Adam Grant ist der Meinung, dass geistige Offenheit eine Fähigkeit ist, die man lernen kann. Und von keinem kann man diese immens nützliche Fähigkeit besser lernen als von ihm. Die bemerkenswerten Einsichten seines brillanten Buches werden dazu führen, dass Sie Ihre Ansichten und Ihre wichtigsten Entscheidungen überdenken. Garantiert.«
Daniel Kahneman, Nobelpreisträger und Bestsellerautor (Schnelles Denken, langsames Denken)

“Adam Grant acredita que podemos aprender a ter a mente aberta. E ninguém melhor do que ele para ensinar essa habilidade valiosíssima neste livro maravilhoso.” – Daniel Kahneman, autor de Rápido e devagar

“Leitura obrigatória para quem quer criar uma cultura de aprendizado e experimentação, seja em casa, no trabalho ou na escola.” – Bill Gates

Adam Grant examina a crucial arte de repensar: aprender a questionar nossas opiniões e a abrir a mente das outras pessoas, o que pode nos levar à excelência no trabalho e à sabedoria na vida.

A inteligência geralmente é vista como a capacidade de pensar e aprender, mas em um mundo em rápida mudança, há outro conjunto de habilidades cognitivas que podem ser mais importantes: a capacidade de repensar e desaprender.

A maioria das pessoas prefere o conforto da convicção ao desconforto da dúvida. Em geral só damos ouvidos às opiniões que confirmam as nossas, descartamos ideias que nos façam pensar muito e vemos o desacordo como uma ameaça. O custo disso pode ser bem maior do que se imagina.

Com ideias ousadas e evidências rigorosas, o psicólogo organizacional Adam Grant investiga neste livro como abraçar a alegria de estar errado, trazer nuances para conversas difíceis e incentivar o aprendizado contínuo.

Você vai conhecer excelentes métodos para promover o repensamento, utilizados, por exemplo, por um músico negro que convence supremacistas brancos a abandonar o ódio e um médico que usa seu poder de persuasão para fazer os pais vacinarem seus filhos.

Além disso, vai encontrar dicas práticas para ter conversas mais produtivas, mesmo que envolvam visões de mundo opostas.

Pense de novo demonstra com clareza e bom humor que é possível manter a mente aberta sem perder o poder de convencimento nem a autoconfiança. Se conhecimento é poder, saber o que não sabemos é sabedoria.