I’ve spent the last 29 years studying human behavior; advising people how to affect human behavior; and advising business leaders how to help their organizations help people do more better faster; help individuals do more to help their organizations and to earn more for themselves and their families.
I wrote
The Art of Being Indispensable at Work: Win Influence, Beat Overcommitment, and Get the Right Things Done
This book is fun and so interesting. I get the feeling that students of the author at Stanford were saying, “professor, you should write a book about the stuff we learned in this class.” And he really pulled it off. I learned what happens in your brain just before a behavior; what happens in your endocrine system in the minutes, hours, and days; what happens in your whole body genetically and epigenetically; and what happened evolutionarily to make humans the way we are! So so so interesting!
Great advice about living life and being strong and being happy and satisfied with your work and life from one of the greatest military leaders in American history. This guy led and commanded the mission to get Bin Laden!!!! He was and led NAVY SEALS for 37 years. This book is short and sweet and brilliant and beautiful and a great gift for yourself or anyone else! Brilliant and beautiful.
Make a new start in 2022 with positive daily habits for a healthy mind, from the incredible No. 1 New York Times bestseller
THE INCREDIBLE NO. 1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
'SUPERB, SMART, AND SUCCINCT' FORBES ______
Struggling to find structure? Finding yourself lacking motivation?
Start by making your bed.
Maintaining routine and structure is more important than ever in the age of home working, flexi-time and the general chaos of life.
In Make Your Bed, Admiral William H. McRaven shares 10 life lessons he learned during his Navy Seal training that helped him overcome challenges not only in his…
Nature writer Sharman Apt Russell tells stories of her experiences tracking wildlife—mostly mammals, from mountain lions to pocket mice—near her home in New Mexico, with lessons that hold true across North America. She guides readers through the basics of identifying tracks and signs, revealing a landscape filled with the marks…
I was blown away by this book and then went on to read his second and third books and can’t wait for his fourth book! The book is an elegant and easier-to-understand version of many longer and harder-to-read books trying to unearth and explain similar matters. Also I agree with Harari about so much of what he’s trying to teach.
Read the book and you’ll understand so much more about what makes humans tick!
100,000 years ago, at least six human species inhabited the earth. Today there is just one. Us. Homo sapiens. How did our species succeed in the battle for dominance? Why did our foraging ancestors come together to create cities and kingdoms? How did we come to believe in gods, nations and human rights; to trust money, books and laws; and to be enslaved by bureaucracy, timetables and consumerism? And what will our world be like in the millennia to come?
In Sapiens, Dr Yuval Noah Harari spans the whole of human history, from the very first humans to walk the…
This is a book I give my own nieces and nephews and siblings and my father and mother; to my clients who are leaders at all levels; who are people at all levels trying hard to succeed and trying hard to be good people; trying to be happy.
This was written by a beautiful, brilliant man who learned he was dying soon of cancer and wanted to capture the lessons he wanted to leave for his baby children who would never know him. It's short and brilliant and will have you crying, laughing, nodding, and learning every step of the way.
A lot of professors give talks titled The Last Lecture. Professors are asked to consider their demise and to ruminate on what matters most to them: What wisdom would we impart to the world if we knew it was our last chance? If we had to vanish tomorrow, what would we want as our legacy?
When Randy Pausch, a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon, was asked to give such a lecture, he didnt have to imagine it as his last, since he had recently been diagnosed with terminal cancer. But the lecture he gave, Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams,…
Who was the man who would become Caesar's lieutenant, Brutus' rival, Cleopatra's lover, and Octavian's enemy?
When his stepfather is executed for his involvement in the Catilinarian conspiracy, Mark Antony and his family are disgraced. His adolescence is marked by scandal and mischief, his love affairs are fleeting, and yet,…
This is a book that I give to people who want to change a habit of their own or advise someone else how to change a habit; how to change a habit in a team or an organization; and to better understand cultural habits, how to adapt. It’s a powerful book because human beings are creatures of habit: Good habits? Bad habits? Your choice.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • This instant classic explores how we can change our lives by changing our habits.
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Wall Street Journal • Financial Times
In The Power of Habit, award-winning business reporterCharles Duhigg takes us to the thrilling edge of scientific discoveries that explain why habits exist and how they can be changed. Distilling vast amounts of information into engrossing narratives that take us from the boardrooms of Procter & Gamble to the sidelines of the NFL to the front lines of the civil rights movement, Duhigg presents…
Back to fundamentals tools and techniques for managing yourself and managing relationships at work. How to bring out the best in yourself and how to bring out the best in others at work in order to minimize unnecessary problems. Do you want to avoid relationship friction at work? Do you want to do more work better and faster? Do you want to be a go-to person at work without becoming hopelessly overcommitted? Do you want to understand the peculiar mathematics of real influence? Are you looking for a book that is fun, short, and easy? Read this book.
What were America's first prisons like? How did penal reformers, prison administrators, and politicians deal with the challenges of confining human beings in long-term captivity as punishment--what they saw as a humane intervention?
The Deviant Prison centers on one early prison: Eastern State Penitentiary. Built in Philadelphia, one of the…
A Sumerian tale of irrigation, floods, and the creation of man
By
Ken Goudsward,
Contrary to popular belief, the Atrahasis Epic is not merely a flood myth. In some ways it can be called a creation myth. However, it does not concern itself with the creation of the universe or even of the earth. Rather, the created work in question is one of culture…
