![]() ![]() Yet despite this capacity for internecine warfare, most companies roll along relatively peacefully, year after year, because they have routines – habits – that create truces that allow everyone to set aside their rivalries long enough to get a day’s work done. Susain Cain talks about current society status and how it has been designed to reward extroverts and people who love going out. This TED talk is about people who don’t like to put out their opinion in public. Bosses pit their subordinates against one another so that no one can mount a coup.Ĭompanies aren’t families. The Power of Introverts This is one of the most popular ted talks. Citing research evidence supporting the positive. ![]() Divisions compete for resources and sabotage each other to steal glory. In this ingenious talk, Pulitzer Prize winning writer Charles Duhigg seamlessly combines informational facts from research, anecdotes from real events, and personal experience with insightful observations to explain why human behaviors are compelled by habit. Rather, most workplaces are made up of fiefdoms where executives compete for power and credit, often in hidden skirmishes that make their own performances appear superior and their rivals’ seem worse. Companies aren’t big happy families where everyone plays together nicely. In the real world, that’s not how things work at all. The Power of Habit is a great book, but more descriptive and in-depth, describing the different levels of habit-formation and the effects of habits on various levels (individually, societally and globally). ![]() “Most economists are accustomed to treating companies as idyllic places where everyone is devoted to a common goal: making as much money as possible. ![]()
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