full transcript
From the Ted Talk by Adam Grant: Are you a giver or a taker?
Unscramble the Blue Letters
No — let even one taker into a team, and you will see that the givers will stop helping. They'll say, "I'm srruduenod by a bncuh of snakes and sharks. Why should I cnirutotbe?" Whereas if you let one giver into a team, you don't get an elsxoiopn of giteonrsey. More often, people are like, "Great! That person can do all our work." So, effective hiring and screening and team building is not about bringing in the givers; it's about weeding out the takers. If you can do that well, you'll be left with givers and matchers. The givers will be generous because they don't have to worry about the consequences. And the beauty of the matchers is that they follow the norm.
Open Cloze
No — let even one taker into a team, and you will see that the givers will stop helping. They'll say, "I'm __________ by a _____ of snakes and sharks. Why should I __________?" Whereas if you let one giver into a team, you don't get an _________ of __________. More often, people are like, "Great! That person can do all our work." So, effective hiring and screening and team building is not about bringing in the givers; it's about weeding out the takers. If you can do that well, you'll be left with givers and matchers. The givers will be generous because they don't have to worry about the consequences. And the beauty of the matchers is that they follow the norm.
Solution
- surrounded
- explosion
- generosity
- contribute
- bunch
Original Text
No — let even one taker into a team, and you will see that the givers will stop helping. They'll say, "I'm surrounded by a bunch of snakes and sharks. Why should I contribute?" Whereas if you let one giver into a team, you don't get an explosion of generosity. More often, people are like, "Great! That person can do all our work." So, effective hiring and screening and team building is not about bringing in the givers; it's about weeding out the takers. If you can do that well, you'll be left with givers and matchers. The givers will be generous because they don't have to worry about the consequences. And the beauty of the matchers is that they follow the norm.
Frequently Occurring Word Combinations
ngrams of length 2
collocation |
frequency |
disagreeable givers |
3 |
agreeable people |
2 |
disagreeable people |
2 |
Important Words
- beauty
- bringing
- building
- bunch
- consequences
- contribute
- effective
- explosion
- follow
- generosity
- generous
- giver
- givers
- helping
- hiring
- left
- matchers
- norm
- people
- person
- screening
- sharks
- snakes
- stop
- surrounded
- taker
- takers
- team
- weeding
- work
- worry