As leaders, coaches, consultants, and change agents, we spend a lot of time at work convincing others to see things our way: We explain the rationale. We share the research. We articulate the vision ...

Over the course of four sessions, my patient, Stacey, and I worked toward her goals of sleeping more, checking her email less and spending more quality time with her family. She successfully developed ...

Understanding, predicting, and changing behavior is the holy grail of managers, politicians, and academics alike. I sat down with eminent social psychologist Prof Saadi Lahlou of the London School of ...

If you want customers to change a behavior, it’s easier to do so in response to a real problem. If not, don’t feel too bad. The “smart” juicing startup collapsed a mere sixteen months after launching, ...

Designing apps and platforms for healthcare isn’t necessarily about ticking off how many downloads the product has. Most of the time the main goal is changing the end user’s behavior — whether that be ...

Most organizations approach culture change through training and communication, assuming that if you educate people and build their skills, you can expect action. But people’s behavior rarely changes ...

The Harry Potter audiobooks helped Katy Milkman make a foundational discovery about exercise behavior. A Harvard graduate student at the time, she was struggling to work out. Once a varsity tennis ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - When it comes to changing health behaviors, it takes more than a far-flung network of friends on Facebook egging you on. It takes a jostling herd, U.S. researchers said on Thursday ...