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Charles Duhigg

Rafat Allam

Analytic Summary of The Power of Habit

Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business

“I thought David Epstein’s first two books were brilliant, but Inside the Box is his best. I’ll never think about my own work the same way again.” —Malcolm Gladwell It's never been easier to do too much. From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Range, why limits are the key to stimulating creativity, innovation, collaboration, and personal contentment. We live in a world that gives us seemingly infinite choices and prizes freedom above all else. We have an unprecedented number of options regarding what to do, who to be, and how to spend our time. All that choice is wonderful; it is also overwhelming. The irony is that total freedom can be paralyzing, and unlimited resources don’t necessarily lead to the biggest breakthroughs. In fact, overvaluing complete freedom can be disastrous for everything from starting a company to harnessing creativity to finding personal satisfaction. David Epstein argues that all of us—individuals, businesses, institutions, even societies—can benefit from narrowing our options. He dives into the science and practice of constraints, exploring exactly when and how guardrails can be beneficial, whether we’re working with limited resources or using self-imposed boundaries to tap unexpected wells of focus and innovation. Original, galvanizing, and deeply researched, Inside the Box tells absorbing stories of people and organizations that embraced constraints to transform themselves, and the world—as well as a few that struggled from a lack of limits. Epstein reveals how boundaries create breakthroughs, and how setting the right constraints can help you become the most creative, productive, and satisfied version of yourself.

How to do more with less and use limits to achieve greater creativity, innovation, and success, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Range We live in a world that gives us seemingly infinite choices and values freedom above all else. We have an unprecedented number of options regarding what to do, who to be, and how to spend our time. All that choice is wonderful; it is also overwhelming. The irony is that total freedom can be paralyzing, and unlimited resources don’t necessarily lead to the biggest breakthroughs. In fact, overvaluing complete freedom can be disastrous for everything from starting a company to harnessing creativity to finding personal satisfaction. David Epstein argues that we could all benefit from narrowing our options. He dives into the science and practice of constraints, exploring exactly when and how guide rails can be beneficial, whether we’re working with limited resources or using self-imposed boundaries to tap unexpected wells of focus and innovation. Original, galvanizing, and deeply researched, Inside the Box tells absorbing stories of people, companies, and organizations who embraced constraints to achieve meaningful breakthroughs—and a few that struggled from a lack of limits. It celebrates the surprising potential of hard deadlines, boring goals, and unexpected obstacles. And it reveals how to set the right constraints to enable you to be the most creative and productive version of yourself.

How Constraints Make Us Better

Inside the Box

A central concern of economists, policymakers and civil society in recent years has been the persistent and widespread slowdown in global productivity growth.This stands in stark contrast to the robust productivity performance and associated prosperity witnessed across advanced economies in previous decades. The productivity slowdown represents a significant concern because it underpins the tensions emerging from income and wealth inequality, an expanded corporate profit share and geopolitical friction as established and emerging economic powers vie for global market supremacy. History offers numerous examples of technological advancement coinciding with heightened economic uncertainty and political discontent, yet these were predominantly periods of accelerated productivity growth. This volume delivers a guide to the contested terrain through a diversity of perspectives spanning mainstream economic analysis to institutional and political economy frameworks. It encompasses topics ranging from the definition and measurement of productivity to the function of research and innovation, financialisation and business dynamism, management quality and workplace relations and the existential implications and opportunities presented by climate change.Understanding Productivity targets policymakers, students across multiple disciplines and readers eager to examine the productivity 'black box', to participate in an informed exploration of theory and evidence-based perspectives and to formulate their own conclusions about this critically important dimension of contemporary economic discourse and debate.

Understanding Productivity

Stop running on auto-pilot and make the most of every day with intentional planning!Every moment matters when you have big goals for your family, career, and the community you're committed to. Between kids' schedules, work meetings, anniversary trips, the occasional date night, and squeezing in a quick gym session, it's easy to get overwhelmed! The constant barrage of obligations and to-dos is exhausting-especially for women who are also managing the mental load in most areas of family life. We end up stuck in routines and habits that don't serve us, as our dreams seem to slip further and further away.What if, instead of greeting each day in a scramble to keep up, there was a clearly laid out plan, complete with breathing room for rest and fun? In Best Laid Plans, Dr. Sarah Hart-Unger offers an intuitive planning method for setting audacious goals, working with the natural rhythms of your life in every season, and bringing a sense of peace and joy back to every day. With Best Laid Plans, you'll learn:<ul><li>How to create and accomplish nested goals for every year, month, week, and day</li><li>The magic of planning in seasonal quintiles, or five seasons instead of four</li><li>The airtight task management method for handling all of those pesky to-dos</li><li>How to fill each day with meaningful moments of connection and delight</li></ul>Discover a simple way to make the most of every day and live your best life.

A Simple Planning System for Living a Life That You Love

Best Laid Plans

This book examines the issues related to hybrid and remote working following the pandemic and the subsequent increase in returning to the office.While hybrid work is undoubtedly the 'new norm', for office-based jobs, the organisation of hybrid work arrangements continues to evolve, with many organisations attempting to adjust the balance to require workers to spend more time in the office. The book examines both traditional workplace issues (productivity, work/life relations, isolation and wellbeing, meetings, management) alongside workspace issues (virtual, office, mobile, and co- working), concluding with wider implications and potential future directions. Building on the latest research on hybrid and remote working, and including case studies from different countries, the book considers each issue from the perspective of organisations, managers, and the workers who undertake such forms of work. The author provides a balanced analysis of the topics examined, considering the diverse positive aspects of hybrid and remote working, as well as the challenges and difficulties that they can involve. He offers practical advice for hybrid workers, and those who manage them, to make these forms of work effective.The book will have wide-ranging appeal, including professionals such as managers and human resources workers, students and academics of business, and organisational and business psychology, and anyone interested in this fascinating and fast-evolving area.

Transforming Office-based Jobs

The Evolution of Hybrid and Remote Working

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. An unorthodox guide to making things worth making, from 'the father of the iPod and iPhone' and the creator of Nest. Everyone deserves a mentor. For every career crisis, every fork in the road, you need someone to talk to. Someone who's been there before, who knows exactly how wobbly and conflicted you feel, who can give it to you straight: Here's how to think about choosing a job. Here's how to be a better manager. Here's how to approach design. Here's how to start a company. Here's how to run it. Tony Fadell learned all these lessons the hard way. He spent the first 10 years of his career in Silicon Valley failing spectacularly, and the next 20 building some of the most impactful devices in history - the iPod, iPhone, and Nest Learning Thermostat. He has enough stories and advice about leadership, design, startups, mentorship, decision making, devastating screwups, and unbelievable success to fill an encyclopedia. So that's what this book is. An advice encyclopedia. A mentor in a box. But Tony's doesn't follow the standard Silicon Valley credo that you have to radically reinvent everything you do. His advice is unorthodox because it's old school. Because it's based on human nature, not gimmicks. Tony keeps things simple: he just tells you what works. He gives you exactly what you need to make things worth making. PRAISE FOR BUILD This is the most fun - and the most fascinating - memoir of curiosity and invention that I've ever read.' Malcolm Gladwell, Host of the Revisionist History podcast. Author of Outliers and Talking to Strangers. Whether you're looking to build a great product, a creative team, a strong culture, or a meaningful career, Tony's guidance will get you thinking and rethinking.' Adam Grant, Author of Think Again &amp; Host of the TED podcast WorkLife

An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making

Build

The Bonus Years

Most books about the gig economy fall into one of two categories: breathless cheerleading that ignores real challenges, or pessimistic warnings that dismiss every opportunity as exploitation. The Gig Economy: Cutting Through the BS is neither. 

Richard Lowe spent twelve years building, testing, and abandoning online income strategies before finding what actually works. He made $10,000 in affiliate marketing and walked away because the industry runs on manufactured social proof and predatory incentives. He made $35,000 on eBay before fees and platform changes killed the margins. He tested contest sites, read-for-pay schemes, dropshipping, Fiverr gigs, and survey platforms, and documented exactly why each one fails and what makes people keep trying them anyway. 

What he kept was a methodology. Not a system to copy, but a repeatable process for identifying opportunities others miss, testing ideas cheaply before committing, scaling what works, and killing what doesn't. That methodology eventually built a ghostwriting business generating $150,000 a year. More importantly, it can be applied to almost any skill set in almost any market. 

This book is for the person who just lost a job and needs income within thirty days. For the employed professional who wants a second income stream before they need one. For the freelancer who has tried platforms like Fiverr and Upwork and can't understand why the math never works out. For the semi-retired professional with decades of expertise and no idea it's sellable. For anyone with ADHD or neurodivergence who needs income that works with their brain instead of against it. 

It covers the psychological traps that keep motivated, intelligent people stuck in strategies that aren't working - sunk cost fallacy, confirmation bias, authority bias, social proof - and provides concrete systems to counteract them. It covers scam detection in practical terms, including the mechanics of three real scams the author personally encountered. It covers the legal and financial basics that most freelance books skip: how to write a statement of work, how to structure payment to protect yourself, what insurance you actually need. 

No affiliate links. No guaranteed systems. No recycled advice dressed up in new packaging. Just an honest account of what works, what doesn't, and how to tell the difference before you waste months finding out the hard way.

The Gig Economy

Project Management for Academic Researchers

The secret to boosting research productivity, managing workloads and responding to changing circumstances is to harness project management tools in the academic environment. With academics increasingly being asked to perform all of these feats at once, this book could not come soon enough. It sets out the basics of project management as a practical, step-by-step process for integrating the demands of research projects into the working life of today's academics. This book's central premise is that as a research academic you are already a project manager whether or not you identify as such, by virtue of the particular professional demands made of you. It explains how to take a structured approach to delivering research by determining your goals, defining their success and fully embracing the planning process. With a well-planned, well-managed project under your belt, it also explains the best ways of concluding and delivering a project, including how to guide your team through the invaluable review process to make sure that your next project is managed even more successfully. By understanding that you are a project manager and exactly what tasks and responsibilities this involves, you will be able not only to improve your output, manage your workload and expand your prospects, but use your unique experience and skills to further develop in the role itself.

Sustainable Development Goals Series

This book is open access, What makes people competent at work? This question is becoming complicated with the emergence of new technologies and the hastened pace of global economic exchanges. While there is less consensus about what people should know and be able to do to be rewarded in the workplace, the discussion about skills and competencies becomes even hotter among those who express concern about the gaps between the demands and supplies of "skilled" workforces.
 
Given this situation, one of the main objectives of this book is to clarify the true nature of often-discussed "skills gaps", using the cases of manufacturing workers in the Global South. Instead of discussing the issues based on a broad, ambiguous understanding of human abilities, after an extensive, cross-disciplinary review of the literature and theorization, the book proposes a detailed classification of cognitive, non-cognitive (including socio-emotional skills and personality traits), and technical abilities. Then, it presents both contextually relevant and generalizable explanations about relationships among them. By doing so, the volume offers insights for policymakers and practitioners seeking ideas to reform their human resources development policies and practices.
 
The second objective of the volume is to propose the analytical perspective of Realist-Constructivism, using the "skills gaps" analysis as the empirical case, to demonstrate its theoretical, conceptual, and practical capacities to overcome the dichotomy between induction and deduction through abductive reasoning with a set of instruments to collect data that enable such analysis.
 
Empirical surveys, using a set of questionnaires and skills assessment we developed, were conducted in four countries in the Global South: Ethiopia, Ghana, South Africa, and Pakistan. With Realist-Constructivism, we can consider work-related competencies in close relation to the specific workplace requirements and culture, while situating them within broader industrial, economic, and regulatory frameworks. Our methods and instruments enable us to link the subjective epistemologies of competencies among individuals in the micro-ecologies of the workplace with the ontological realities of labor market opportunities and evaluations.

This book is open access, What makes people competent at work? This question is becoming complicated with the emergence of new technologies and the hastened pace of global economic exchanges. While there is less consensus about what people should know and be able to do to be rewarded in the workplace, the discussion about skills and competencies becomes even hotter among those who express concern about the gaps between the demands and supplies of "skilled" workforces.&nbsp;Given this situation, one of the main objectives of this book is to clarify the true nature of often-discussed "skills gaps", using the cases of manufacturing workers in the Global South. Instead of discussing the issues based on a broad, ambiguous understanding of human abilities, after an extensive, cross-disciplinary review of the literature and theorization, the book proposes a detailed classification of cognitive, non-cognitive (including socio-emotional skills and personality traits), and technical abilities. Then, it presents both contextually relevant and generalizable explanations about relationships among them. By doing so, the volume offers insights for policymakers and practitioners seeking ideas to reform their human resources development policies and practices.&nbsp;The second objective of the volume is to propose the analytical perspective of Realist-Constructivism, using the "skills gaps" analysis as the empirical case, to demonstrate its theoretical, conceptual, and practical capacities to overcome the dichotomy between induction and deduction through abductive reasoning with a set of instruments to collect data that enable such analysis.&nbsp;Empirical surveys, using a set of questionnaires and skills assessment we developed, were conducted in four countries in the Global South: Ethiopia, Ghana, South Africa, and Pakistan. With Realist-Constructivism, we can consider work-related competencies in close relation to the specific workplace requirements and culture, while situating them within broader industrial, economic, and regulatory frameworks. Our methods and instruments enable us to link the subjective epistemologies of competencies among individuals in the micro-ecologies of the workplace with the ontological realities of labor market opportunities and evaluations.

A Realist-Constructivism Analysis of Work Competencies in the Global South

Mitigating the “Skills Gaps”

The revolutionary new book from the international bestselling author of Hunt, Gather, Parent.Why do video games include missions?Why does junk food give us cravings?Because they tap into dopamine, the neurotransmitter that motivates us to want more.Companies and developers use knowledge of how dopamine affects our children's brains to sell them screens, games and ultra-processed foods. In Dopamine Kids, Michaeleen Doucleff, bestselling author of Hunt, Gather, Parent, empowers parents with this same knowledge, but instead shows how to utilize it to reinforce positive habits, activities and lifestyle choices.Through five simple and science-backed steps, she demonstrates how to identify unhealthy hobbies and re-direct your child's motivation to build positive ones. Swap binge-watching with reading. Replace the excitement of screens with the thrill of outdoor activities. Substitute ultra-processed foods for the joy of baking.By understanding and harnessing the power of dopamine, we can help our children build independence, concentration, strong mental health and, above all, thrive in an ever-changing world.

Five Steps to Free Your Family from Digital Dependency and Ultra-Processed Foods

Dopamine Kids

Obsession is the invisible thread connecting every creator, entrepreneur, and athlete who reaches the pinnacle of their field. The Obsessed are outcasts. Misfits. Rebels. They're called crazy for being consumed by their craft, for rejecting what's normal, for turning down a conventional life. But they know something others don't: that obsession is the only way to achieve what most can barely dream of. But anyone can access obsession. The Obsession Year is a motivational handbook to help you on your journey on one year of obsession that will change your life. Through a blend of energizing quotes, tactical advice, and exercise prompt, you will harness obsession to create extreme change in your work, life, and self. With themes for each month, like Vision, Solitude, Pressure, Creativity, Chaos, and Genius, this playbook features daily reminders and prompts to keep you on track during 365 days of full, unrelenting commitment to your craft. When you allow yourself to create without compromise, magic happens. Goals that seemed like distant dreams are suddenly within reach. And you wake up-after 12 months of total focus-as an entirely new Your path to greatness starts with The Obsession Year.

A Daily Practice for Extreme Results

The Obsession Year

Analytic Summary of The Power of Habit

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