Yet despite this capacity for internecine warfare, most companies roll along relatively peacefully, year after year, because they have routines – habits – that create truces that allow everyone to set aside their rivalries long enough to get a day’s work done. Bosses pit their subordinates against one another so that no one can mount a coup.Ĭompanies aren’t families. Divisions compete for resources and sabotage each other to steal glory. Rather, most workplaces are made up of fiefdoms where executives compete for power and credit, often in hidden skirmishes that make their own performances appear superior and their rivals’ seem worse. Companies aren’t big happy families where everyone plays together nicely. In The Power of Habit, award-winning business reporter Charles Duhigg takes us to the thrilling edge of scientific discoveries that explain why habits exist and how they can be changed. In the real world, that’s not how things work at all. “Most economists are accustomed to treating companies as idyllic places where everyone is devoted to a common goal: making as much money as possible. Jim Collins Few books become essential manuals for business and living.
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