Charles Duhigg

A thirty-four-year-old woman walks into a research laboratory outside Bethesda, Maryland. Over the past two years, she has changed almost every aspect of her life. She has quit smoking, lost forty pounds, run a marathon, and been promoted at work. The patterns inside her brain, neurologists are shocked to discover, have fundamentally changed. A group of marketers and psychologists at Proctor & Gamble gather in a conference room, watching videotapes...

Redefining productivity as a discipline involving how one thinks, identifies goals, constructs teams, and makes decisions, explains how to transform thinking behaviors to increase self-motivation and shares illustrative examples.

A group of data scientists at Google embark on a four-year study of how the best teams function, and find that how a group interacts is much more important than who is in the group. A Marine Corps general, faced with low morale among recruits, reimagines boot camp -- and discovers that instilling a 'bias toward action' can turn even the most directionless teenagers into self-motivating achievers. The filmmakers behind Disney's Frozen are on the brink...