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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

Main Work:

The power of habit: why we do what we do in life and business [by Duhigg, C.]

Subjects:

Habit

Habit — Social aspects

Change (Psychology)

Social aspects

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