According to the UN, 2011 is the year of the forest. The Chinese will tell you it’s the year of the rabbit. And, Pantone will tell it’s the year of Honeysuckle, colour #18-2120. For you, what is 2011 the year of? What do you want to have happen? What do
I’ve been blogging over at www.bookrapper.com/blog/ for the past couple of years… over 300 posts. And, now I’m swinging over to my own domain name, geoffmcdonald.com. From now on, all my new content will be posted here. Posts, E-books and Books My long term plan is to write at least
Here’s the 7th example in the Sticky Change series. Derived from: Chip and Dan Heath, Switch : How to Change Things When Change is Hard In RAP10 we talked about building habits. And we explored pre-thinking our actions to ensure we covered all the necessary things we had to do.
The sixth instalment in our real world examples of changing behaviour… Derived from: Chip and Dan Heath, Switch : How to Change Things When Change is Hard Want to learn how to juggle three balls? The key is to start with one ball. In this video, juggling superstar Jason Garfield
Another instalment in our real world examples of changing behaviour… Derived from: Chip and Dan Heath, Switch : How to Change Things When Change is Hard Are you a regular flyer on commercial airlines? How many times do you listen to the safety announcements? Most people don’t because they’re boring.
Another instalment in our real world examples of changing behaviour. Derived from: Chip and Dan Heath, Switch : How to Change Things When Change is Hard In RAP8 we talked about ‘Grow your people’ and about expecting failure. In this Nike ad, basketball legend Michael Jordan talks about his relationship
These are my top ten favourite books for 2010… And, they’re not what you might expect. We rapped only 4 of the 10, so there’s a couple here that might surprise you… Roger Martin, The Design of Business This book changed how I see what I do. It married my
Another instalment in our real world examples of changing behaviour. Derived from: Chip and Dan Heath, Switch : How to Change Things When Change is Hard In RAP9 we explored tweaking your environment as a means to changing your behaviour. One suggestion was to make it smaller. And, in this
Having just released the latest Book Rapper issue Sticky Change: Make Change Happen Quickly Smoothly Easily, here’s a series of real world examples of changing behaviour. Derived from: Chip and Dan Heath, Switch : How to Change Things When Change is Hard In RAP8 we talked about ‘Grow your people’.
How do you encourage people to take the stairs and gain some exercise when they would rather take the escalator? You could try talking to them and telling them all of the rational and logical arguments for why they need to exercise and more their bodies more. But that’s not