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Is give-and-take an old-fashioned notion?

Lead Change Blog

In their book, People of the Lake: Mankind and its Beginnings , Richard Leakey and Kurt Lewin remark that our ancestors participated in an “honored network of obligation” i.e., I help you, you help me. Balanced reciprocity as defined by Wikipedia “refers to direct exchange of customary equivalents without any delay.”

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To Be a Fly on the Wall at Facebook on IPO Day

Harvard Business Review

At Akamai, in the early afternoon, we left our desks and met in a conference room to watch. Our co-founder and CTO, Danny Lewin, had suddenly turned from a struggling graduate student to a staggeringly wealthy man. The conference room filled. For the employees, the actual day of "going public" is very strange.

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