Revolutionary Giving: The Future Of Sustained Corporate Success – BSL Insider Radio

Summary: BSL Insider Exclusive: Adam Grant from "Give And Take" and The Wharton School of Business, joins us on the show today. We talk about giving a lot here at BSL. Most often in terms of personal transformation, but today's show is going to reveal to you that it's an important shift happening in the overall global consciousness. It's happening live, right now, during this day and age. And it's happening across all facets of life. The biggest arena that the shift is affecting is the corporate and business arena. There are massive challenges and consequences we must now deal with. Debt's rising, currencies are inflating, and a host of other things are happening that have yet to reveal themselves. So what does this really mean? It means there are tremendous opportunities available to us, and brilliant solutions are being innovated by some of the brightest minds in the world. Regular, everyday people that you meet at the coffee-shop are taking responsibility and creating socially-conscious businesses from scratch that are in one way or another tackling these challenges head-on. Our community has done something similar with the advancements we've made in developing transformative solutions. Giving To Giving is the way forward. If businesses want to thrive, they must embrace this program because everything else is breaking down. It's the new model of humanity, and it works. Kicking this model forward with us is Dr. Adam Grant. He's bringing the science to back up the evidence that we're already getting with clients. Read on, Adam IS the genius of being giving. Our BSL Insider: Adam Grant is the youngest tenured professor at Wharton. He has been recognized as Wharton’s single-highest-rated teacher, one of BusinessWeek’s favorite professors, and one of the world’s 40 best business professors under 40. Previously, he was a record-setting advertising director at Let’s Go Publications, an All-American springboard diver, and a professional magician. Adam is the author of the New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success. He earned his Ph.D. in organizational psychology from the University of Michigan, completing it in less than three years, and his B.A. from Harvard University, magna cum laude with highest honors and Phi Beta Kappa honors. He has been honored with the Excellence in Teaching Award for every class that he has taught and has presented for leaders at organizations such as Google, the NFL, Merck, Pixar, Goldman Sachs, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, the United Nations, the World Economic Forum, and the U.S. Army, Navy, and Air Force. He has designed several experiential learning activities based on The Apprentice in which students have raised over $175,000 for the Make-A-Wish Foundation while developing leadership, influence, networking and collaboration skills. Adam’s research has been featured in multiple bestselling books and hundreds of media outlets, including the Today Show and in the New York Times magazine cover story, "Is giving the secret to getting ahead?” He has more than 60 publications in leading management and psychology journals, and his pioneering studies have increased performance and reduced burnout among engineers and sales professionals, enhanced call center productivity, and motivated safety behaviors among doctors, nurses and lifeguards. In 2011, he won the triple crown of prestigious scholarly achievement awards from the American Psychological Association, the Academy of Management, and the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology. Impressive? Not as much as what he actually does to give back on top of all that. The guy walks his talk. Adam has a family as well, yet he finds time to always pay it forward. We covered him previously in this article referencing his story in The NYTimes. It's a brilliant piece on more of how he's managed to keep it all together, even leveraging giving itself to become ultra-efficient.