Charles Duhigg is a Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative journalist and the author of The Power of Habit and Smarter Faster Better. A graduate of Harvard Business School and Yale College, he is a winner of the National Academies of Sciences, National Journalism, and George Polk awards. He writes for The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, and other publications, and is the host of the podcast How To! with Charles Duhigg.
“Sharp, provocative, and useful.”—Jim Collins
“Few [books] become essential manuals for business and living. The
Power of Habit is an exception. Charles Duhigg not only explains
how habits are formed but how to kick bad ones and hang on to the
good.”—Financial Times
“Entertaining . . . enjoyable . . . fascinating . . . a serious
look at the science of habit formation and change.”—The New York
Times Book Review
“Cue: see cover. Routine: read book. Reward: fully comprehend the
art of manipulation.”—Bloomberg Businessweek
“A fresh examination of how routine behaviors take hold and whether
they are susceptible to change . . . The stories that Duhigg has
knitted together are all fascinating in their own right, but take
on an added dimension when wedded to his examination of habits.”—
Associated Press
“There’s been a lot of research over the past several years about
how our habits shape us, and this work is beautifully described in
the new book The Power of Habit.”—David Brooks, The New York
Times
“A first-rate book—based on an impressive mass of research, written
in a lively style and providing just the right balance of
intellectual seriousness with practical advice on how to break our
bad habits.”—The Economist
“I have been spinning like a top since reading The Power of Habit,
New York Times journalist Charles Duhigg’s fascinating best-seller
about how people, businesses and organizations develop the positive
routines that make them productive—and happy.”—The Washington
Post
“An absolutely fascinating . . . book [that explores] a startling
and sometimes dismaying collision between the increasingly
sophisticated scientific understanding of habits—how they’re
formed, how they can be disrupted and changed—and, among other
things, companies’ efforts to use that knowledge to steer your
habits and money their way.”—Wired
“If Duhigg is right about the nature of habits, which I think he
is, then trying to get rid of these bad habits won’t work. Instead,
what is needed is to teach the managers to identify the cues that
lead to these bad habits and rewards, and then learn alternative
routines that lead to similar rewards, i.e. business and personal
success.”—Forbes
“The Power of Habit is chock-full of fascinating anecdotes . . .
how an early twentieth century adman turned Pepsodent into the
first bestselling toothpaste by creating the habit of brushing
daily, how a team of marketing mavens at Procter & Gamble rescued
Febreze from the scrapheap of failed products by recognizing that a
fresh smell was a fine reward for a cleaning task, how Michael
Phelps’ coach instilled habits that made him an Olympic champion
many times over, and how Tony Dungy turned the Indianapolis Colts
into a Super Bowl–winning team.”—Los Angeles Times
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