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Summary: networking and social capital is more important than ever. More and more companies are instituting teleworking policies as a result of the spreading coronavirus. Here are 6 ways to [...]

Since I advocate for asking for help at work on pretty much a full-time basis, an episode of the Daily, the New York Times’ daily news podcast caught my attention last week.  It was about the [...]

We all grow up receiving feedback that we never ask for. Because it’s usually painful, we learn to avoid asking for it. As a result, we also fail to benefit from its incredible power: it makes [...]

Excerpted from ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS ASK: How to Master the Most Important Skill for Success © 2020 by Wayne Baker. Published by Currency, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, on January 14. [...]

A version of this article was originally published on Forbes, and is reprinted here with new content with the author’s permission. Years ago, in my first sales role, a coworker pointed out to me [...]

Thanks to Adam Connors and the NetworkWise team for having our CEO, Larry Freed on their podcast this week. Listen here or anywhere else you get your podcasts (iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, [...]

This year I’m making a New Year’s resolution about my work life. I’m resolving to ask for help at work more often. I head up Give and Take, and we make Givitas, the software that thousands of [...]

We believe in generosity at work. The research shows (and our experience bears out) that when we are helpful to others at work, our job satisfaction, health, sense of wellbeing, work product, [...]

Did you read the blog post last week on how to avoid giver burnout? There are some good tips there for setting boundaries and not getting overwhelmed by saying yes to everything, but what if it’s [...]

In his bestselling book Give and Take, Adam Grant argues that there are distinct disadvantages to reaching out only to people we already know for advice or assistance: We’re missing out of a rich [...]