Charles Duhigg

“Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection” (2024)

Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection

“Smarter Faster Better: The Secrets Of Productivity In Life And Business” (2020)

A Group Of Data Scientists At Google Embark On A Four-year Study Of How The Best Teams Function, And Find That How A Group Interacts Is Much More Important Than Who Is In The Group. A Marine Corps General, Faced With Low Morale Among Recruits, Reimagines Boot Camp -- And Discovers That Instilling A 'bias Toward Action' Can Turn Even The Most Directionless Teenagers Into Self-motivating Achievers. The Filmmakers Behind Disney-s Frozen Are On The Brink Of Catastrophe -- Until They Shake Up Their Team In Just The Right Way, Spurring A Creative Breakthrough That Leads To One Of The Highest-grossing Movies Of All Time. What Do These People Have In Common? They Know That Productivity Relies On Making Certain Choices. The Way We Frame Our Daily Decisions; The Big Ambitions We Embrace And The Easy Goals We Ignore; The Cultures We Establish As Leaders To Drive Innovation: These Are The Things That Separate The Merely Busy From The Genuinely Productive. At The Core Of Smarter Faster Better Are Eight Key Concepts -- From Motivation And Goal-setting To Focus And Decision-making -- That Explain Why Some People And Companies Get So Much Done. Drawing On The Latest Findings In Neuroscience, Psychology And Behavioural Eco­nomics -- As Well As The Experiences Of Ceos, Educational Reformers, Four-star Generals, Air­plane Pilots And Broadway Songwriters -- Author Charles Duhigg Explains That The Most Productive People, Companies And Organizations Don’t Merely Act Differently. They View The World, And Their Choices, In Profoundly Different Ways. Motivation: Re-imagining Boot Camp, Nursing Home Rebellions, And The Locus Of Control -- Teams: Psychological Safety At Google And Saturday Night Live -- Focus: Cognitive Tunneling, Air France Flight 447, And The Power Of Mental Models -- Goal Setting: Smart Goals, Stretch Goals, And The Yom Kippur War -- Managing Others: Solving A Kidnapping With Lean And Agile Thinking And A Culture Of Trust -- Decision Making: Forecasting The Future (and Winning At Poker) With Bayesian Psychology -- Innovation: How Idea Brokers And Creative Desperation Saved Disney's Frozen -- Absorbing Data: Turning Information Into Knowledge In Cincinnati's Public Schools. -- Appendix: A Reader's Guide To Using These Ideas. Charles Duhigg. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 293-368) And Index.

“The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business” (2012)