Adam Grant: Are you a giver or a taker?
آدم جرانت: هل أنتَ مِعْطَاء أم إستغلالي ؟
After years of studying the dynamics of success and productivity in the workplace, Adam Grant discovered a powerful and often overlooked motivator: helping others. Full bio
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around the room for a minute
حول الغرفة لدقيقة
paranoid person here --
شخص مريض بجنون العظمة هنا--
at that person for me.
تُشيروا لي على هذا الشخص.
في أماكن العمل،
that I call "takers."
ناس أُسميهم "الإستغلاليون".
in their interactions.
ماتستطيع تقديمه لي.
most interactions by asking,
to think about your own style.
بأسلوبكم.
most of the people most of the time,
مع أغلب الناس في أغلب الوقت،
of a giver or a taker,
مِعطائين أكثر،
to think about yourself.]
you are not a narcissist.]
إذاً لست نرجسي.
that has no data behind it,
بدون بيانات تدعمه،
for you to laugh at this cartoon,
لتضحك علي الكرتون،
that you're a taker.
نرجسي.
one too many times.
و خُدِعوا أكثر مِن مرة .
that we won't be addressing today,
الإستغلاليين لن نُخاطبهم اليوم ،
common these extremes are,
people across industries
are right in the middle
called "matching."
an even balance of give and take:
شخص مُماثِل(يعامل بالمثل )
for you if you do something for me.
to live your life.
and productive way to live your life?
is a very definitive ...
their productivity.
of these jobs were the givers.
than they got back.
other people's jobs,
to get their own work completed.
عملهم الخاص.
belong to the students
with statements like,
you ought to trust
with no desire to help anybody.
ولا يساعدون الآخرين .
the lowest revenue accrued
to one of those salespeople
you suck at your job --"
so deeply about my customers
one of our crappy products."
as givers than takers or matchers?
مُعطي أكثر من كونه آخِذ؟
before we talked about these data.
قبل عرض هذه البيانات.
there's a twist here,
sacrificing themselves,
at the frequency of giving behavior
or an organization --
and sharing their knowledge
ويساعدون بعضهم البعض
on every metric we can measure:
employee retention --
إستبقاءً للموظفين
trying to help other people
لمساعدة الآخرين
they suffer along the way.
actually get to succeed.
are the worst performers,
في وظائفهم ،
it's not the takers.
إنهم ليسوا هؤلاء الآخذين.
but also fall quickly in most jobs.
لكنهم يسقطون بسرعة أيضاً.
in "An eye for an eye" -- a just world.
"العين بالعين "
out of that person.
who are the best performers.
I've ever studied,
to the givers again.
from hundreds of salespeople,
من مِئات الناس
go to both extremes.
أفضل وأسوأ النتائج
who bring in the lowest revenue,
for engineers' productivity
at the bottom and at the top
where more of these givers get to excel?
not just in businesses,
ليس فقط في العمل ،
but I appreciate the enthusiasm.
are your most valuable people,
the givers in your midst.
from Fortune's best networker.
علي الإنترنت
of his time helping other people.
is the five-minute favor.
،معروف لمدة 5 دقائق ،
Mother Teresa or Gandhi
القديسة تريزا أو غاندي
to add large value
لتُضيف قيمة كبيرة
as making an introduction
benefit from knowing each other.
من معرِفة الآخر.
or giving a little bit of feedback.
as basic as saying,
whose work has gone unnoticed."
are really critical
and protect themselves.
لحماية أنفسهم
where givers succeed,
يكون فيها المِعطاؤن ناجحون ،
where help-seeking is the norm;
مساعدة الناس فيها هي الأساس
to home for some of you.
you always have to be the giver?]
to be a receiver, too.
يتلقوا مساعدة أيضاً
we can actually make this easier.
for people to ask for help.
يطلب الناس المساعدة
studied hospitals.
nurses did a lot of help-seeking,
تقدم الممرضات مساعدة هائلة ،
they did very little of it.
where help-seeking was common,
whose sole job it was
it's not vulnerable to ask for help --
أن نطلب المساعدة-
just for protecting the success
للحفاظ على النجاح
more people to act like givers,
of all giving in organizations
they don't want to burden others.
أن يكونوا عِبء
in your organization
في منظمتك
who could benefit and how.
of successful givers,
you let onto your team.
of productive generosity,
that that was not right --
of a taker on a culture
the positive impact of a giver.
just does not make a dozen.
أن تجعل الباقي كذلك
will stop helping.
by a bunch of snakes and sharks.
and team building
وبناء فريق
about the consequences.
is that they follow the norm.
سيتبعون السلوك العام .
before it's too late?
قبل فوات الأوان؟
at figuring out who's a taker,
that throws us off.
of personality across cultures.
they're nice, they're polite.
a national contest
and fill in the blank,
was going to be,
or, "... ice hockey."
for their new national slogan to be --
under the circumstances."
who are highly agreeable,
to try to please other people?
skeptical, challenging,
to go to law school.
that's actually an empirical fact.
that agreeable people were givers
no correlation between those traits,
بين هذه السمات ،
that agreeableness-disagreeableness
are more of your inner motives:
What are your intentions toward others?
ما هي نيتك تجاه الأخرين؟
people accurately,
consultant in the room is waiting for,
الاستشاريون،
are also recognized quickly,
by a slightly different name.
two combinations.
in our organizations.
and tough on the surface
others' best interests at heart.
but a great operating system."
undervalued people in our organizations,
مُقَدَّرين في مؤسستنا
who give the critical feedback
but everyone needs to hear.
valuing these people
is the deadly one --
also known as the faker.
who's nice to your face,
these people in the interview process
fundamentally improved?"
influential than them,
and then kicking down.
who are below them in a hierarchy,
you can learn a lot about character
treats their restaurant server
out of organizations,
in pursuing their own goals
that people define success.
عن النجاح
winning a competition,
is really more about contribution.
meaningful way to succeed
are plotting your well-being.
glowing things about you.
is that's not a delusion --
وهم -
where givers succeed,
create that world.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Adam Grant - Organizational psychologistAfter years of studying the dynamics of success and productivity in the workplace, Adam Grant discovered a powerful and often overlooked motivator: helping others.
Why you should listen
In his groundbreaking book Give and Take, top-rated Wharton professor Adam Grant upended decades of conventional motivational thinking with the thesis that giving unselfishly to colleagues or clients can lead to one’s own long-term success. Grant’s research has led hundreds of advice seekers (and HR departments) to his doorstep, and it’s changing the way leaders view their workforces.
Grant's book Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World examines how unconventional thinkers overturn the status quo and champion game-changing ideas.
Grant is the host of the TED original podcast WorkLife, taking us inside unconventional workplaces to explore the ideas we can all use to make work more meaningful and creative.
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