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El poder del hábito: por qué hacemos lo que hacemos en la vida y los negocios

El poder del hábito: por qué hacemos lo que hacemos en la vida y los negocios

Sobre este libro:

Una mujer joven entra en un laboratorio. Durante los últimos dos años, ha transformado casi todos los aspectos de su vida. Dejó de fumar, corrió un maratón y la ascendieron en el trabajo. Los patrones dentro de su cerebro, descubren los neurólogos, han cambiado fundamentalmente.

Marketers at Procter & Gamble study videos of people making their beds. They are desperately trying to figure out how to sell a new product called Febreze, on track to be one of the biggest flops in company history. Suddenly, one of them detects a nearly imperceptible pattern—and with a slight shift in advertising, Febreze goes on to earn a billion dollars a year.

An untested CEO takes over one of the largest companies in America. His first order of business is attacking a single pattern among his employees—how they approach worker safety—and soon the firm, Alcoa, becomes the top performer in the Dow Jones.

¿Qué tienen todas estas personas en común? Lograron el éxito al enfocarse en los patrones que dan forma a cada aspecto de nuestras vidas.

Lo consiguieron transformando hábitos.

En El poder del hábito, premiado New York Times El reportero de negocios Charles Duhigg nos lleva al borde emocionante de los descubrimientos científicos que explican por qué existen los hábitos y cómo se pueden cambiar. Con una inteligencia penetrante y la capacidad de destilar grandes cantidades de información en narrativas fascinantes, Duhigg da vida a una comprensión completamente nueva de la naturaleza humana y su potencial de transformación.

Along the way we learn why some people and companies struggle to change, despite years of trying, while others seem to remake themselves overnight. We visit laboratories where neuroscientists explore how habits work and where, exactly, they reside in our brains. We discover how the right habits were crucial to the success of Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps, Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz, and civil-rights hero Martin Luther King, Jr. We go inside Procter & Gamble, Target superstores, Rick Warren’s Saddleback Church, NFL locker rooms, and the nation’s largest hospitals and see how implementing so-called keystone habits can earn billions and mean the difference between failure and success, life and death.

En su centro, El poder del hábito contiene un argumento estimulante: la clave para hacer ejercicio con regularidad, perder peso, criar niños excepcionales, ser más productivo, construir empresas y movimientos sociales revolucionarios y lograr el éxito es comprender cómo funcionan los hábitos.

Habits aren’t destiny. As Charles Duhigg shows, by harnessing this new science, we can transform our businesses, our communities, and our lives.

Sobre el Autor:

My name is Charles Duhigg, and I’m a reporter for The New York Times. I’m also the author of The Power of Habit, about the science of habit formation, as well as Smarter Faster Better: The Secrets of Productivity in Life and Business (which is available for sale on Amazon on March 8, 2016!)

I’ve worked at the Times since 2006. In 2013, I was part of a team that won the Pulitzer Prize for a series about Apple named “The iEconomy”. Before that, I contributed to NYT series about the 2008 financial crisis, how companies take advantage of the elderly and national violations of the Safe Drinking Water Act. (For those series, I won the National Journalism Award, the Investigative Reporters and Editors’ Medal, the National Academies’ reporting award and other recognitions.)

But let’s be honest, you aren’t visiting this page so I can brag about series and awards. (Unless you’re my mom. Hi mom!)

I’m also a native of New Mexico. I studied history at Yale and received an MBA from Harvard Business School. I now live in Brooklyn with my wife and two children and, before becoming a journalist, was a bike messenger in San Francisco for one terrifying day.

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