The power of habit: why we do what we do in life and business
Charles Duhigg
- Resource Type:
- Book (Print/Paper)
- Edition:
- Random House Trade paperback edition
- Publication:
- New York : Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2014
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- Summary:
- Identifies the neurological processes behind behaviors, explaining how self-control and success are largely driven by habits and providing guidelines for achieving personal goals and overall well-being by adjusting specific habits.
- Table of Contents:
- Prologue. The habit cure
- pt. 1. The habits of individuals. The habit loop: how habits work ; The craving brain: how to create new habits ; The golden rule of habit change: why transformation occurs
- pt. 2. The habits of successful organizations. Keystone habits, or the ballad of Paul O'Neill: which habits matter most ; Starbucks and the habit of success: when willpower becomes automatic ; The power of a crisis: how leaders create habits through accident and design ; How Target knows what you want before you do: when companies predict (and manipulate) habits
- pt. 3. The habits of societies. Saddleback Church and the Montgomery bus boycott: how movements happen ; The neurology of free will: are we responsible for our habits?
- Afterword. some things learned about weight loss, smoking, procrastination, and teaching
- Appendix. A reader's guide to using these ideas
- Acknowledgments
- A note on sources
- Notes
- Index.
- Author/Creator:
- Duhigg, Charles , author
- Languages:
- English
- Language Notes:
- Item content: English
- Subjects:
- General Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [305]-365) and index.
"With a new afterword by the author"--Cover.
"Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Random House, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House LLC, in 2012." - Physical Description:
- xx, 383 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Call Numbers:
- BF335 .D78 2014
- ISBNs:
- 9780812981605 (trade paperback)
081298160X (trade paperback) - Library of Congress Control Numbers:
- 2013474782
- OCLC Numbers:
- 859384319