Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success, by Adam M. Grant Ph.D.

Everyone yearns for success. And most of us believe in the three traditional elements of success: hard work, talent, and luck. But sometimes, we find that even with all these three elements in place, it's still challenging to reach our goals. For example, you might pitch products until you are blue in the face but only see a modest increase in your sales figures. You might be brilliant in your work, but it seems like you can never put your talents to full use just because your colleagues are jealous of you and find ways to put you down. You might finally come into some luck and get promoted to team leader, only to find that your team members are difficult to manage. Could it be that these three elements don't work?