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3 - Profiling²: "What makes others tick?" - On the advantages of knowing people

This should motivate you to use Profiling² to find out
what makes other people tick and then give them exactly
what they want.

However, as a "giver," you should make sure that this concession
is not exploited by the taker types. In employee management and
in dealing with colleagues, the elbow principle can be applied -
even if you are basically a giver type who does not like such
behavior. The decisive factor is to consider the situational
context. Specifically: If an employee simply does not follow the
necessary instructions or, for example, exploits the cooperation
climate in the team to his or her advantage, it is quite appropriate
for you to choose the tough approach, which is unusual for a
giver. In principle, however, it is more effective to create win-win
situations and to strive for a reconciliation of interests or
consensus in which no one involved suffers any damage or loses
face.

Profiling² Tip 2: Use mirror neurons to tune into a
wavelength

Adam Grant describes in his book that the donor attitude
seems to have a contagious effect. Whoever sees that many
fellow human beings in the immediate vicinity behave
altruistically and with the common good in mind, is infected by
this and is tempted to consider whether it would not be
sensible to move away from the egoistic direction of the taker
at least from time to time. Here, the so-called mirror neurons
play an important role: the neurophysiological background:
special nerve cells in our brain react during the

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