As leaders, coaches, consultants, and change agents, we spend a lot of time at work convincing others to see things our way: We explain the rationale. We share the research. We articulate the vision ...

Over the course of four sessions, my patient, Stacey, and I worked toward her goals of sleeping more, checking her email less and spending more quality time with her family. She successfully developed ...

Understanding, predicting, and changing behavior is the holy grail of managers, politicians, and academics alike. I sat down with eminent social psychologist Prof Saadi Lahlou of the London School of ...

The Harry Potter audiobooks helped Katy Milkman make a foundational discovery about exercise behavior. A Harvard graduate student at the time, she was struggling to work out. Once a varsity tennis ...

Anytime we humans have one or more behaviors that we seriously want to change, hopefully for the better, this writer would like to highly recommend that you give “cognitive restructuring” a try. All ...

If you want customers to change a behavior, it’s easier to do so in response to a real problem. If not, don’t feel too bad. The “smart” juicing startup collapsed a mere sixteen months after launching, ...