power of asking through Post-it note - The reciprocity ring

Oct 6, 2014
]In organizational behavior class, we were asked to do a exercise.

each person recieved 1 yellow post it note to write something - ask for help for something. It could be like, " I am looking to carpool for san francisco"  Iam looking to learn guitar" I need help in finding a VC job" they put this on board. Each person recieves 4 blue post it notes. they put theeir solutions to the yellow notes.

This method promotes asking for help, develops connections


This is called reciprocity ring. Price water house coopers adopted this and saw a big difference.