Interesting and scary. The scary part is how businesses gather information and track consumer habits, and how far down into one's life they can drill just by knowing general demographics plus purchasing patterns. That Safeway card is not so benign, which is why mine belongs to a senior citizen named...
I enjoyed this book and the way the author laid out the process of creating habits and making them stick. his helped me to understand that some habits, probably all habits, can be changed. Thee is power in knowledge.
Most of juicy bits (the Target story, the Febreeze story, the Pepsodent story) already available in other formats, but intriguing to have it all in one place nonetheless.
This is a review of an ARC received through a First Reads giveaway.For most of my adult life, I have struggled with bad habits that have kept me unemployed, ineffective when I was employed, unable to do the things that I want, and generally unhappy. About once a year I try and reinvent myself, and ...
Review first published on my blog: http://memoriesfrombooks.blogspot.com/2012/03/power-of-habit.htmlThe Power of Habit is subtitled Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business. It presents one approach to why individual and organizational habits form and what can be done to change them. It presents th...
Katharine is a judge for the Aurealis Awards. This review is the personal opinion of Katharine herself, and does not necessarily reflect the opinion of any judging panel, the judging coordinator or the Aurealis Awards management team. To be safe, I won't be recording my review here until after the A...
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