That is an understandable question, writes FBI hostage negotiator Chris Voss in Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It. The…
1: The FBI had been put on notice. The U.S. deputy attorney general wanted answers on why the FBI’s hostage negotiation techniques were not working. …
1: It was the first day of Harvard Law School’s Winter Negotiation course. It was “the Olympic trials for negotiating,” Chris Voss writes in Never…
“Your beliefs become your thoughts. Your thoughts become your words. Your words become your actions. Your actions become your habits. Your habits become your values.…
1: “We’ve got your son, Voss. Give us one million dollars or he dies,” Chris Voss writes in Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If…
Getting better at getting better is what RiseWithDrew is all about. Monday through Thursday, we explore ideas from authors, thought leaders, and exemplary organizations. On Friday,…
1: Theodore Roosevelt spent almost every day of his childhood fighting severe asthma. “Despite his privileged birth, his life hung in a precarious balance—the attacks…
1: What is the one strategy that is the most effective to overcome the seemingly endless problems that affect us as individuals and as a…
“My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward, not in all…
1: Today, we celebrate the life of Martin Luther King, Jr., perhaps the most influential American of the 20th century. And yet, the greatest American…
“The more time you spend sharpening your axe, the less time you’ll have to spend swinging it.” —Author unknown
Getting better at getting better is what RiseWithDrew is all about. Monday through Thursday, we explore ideas from authors, thought leaders, and exemplary organizations. On Friday,…
1: “Peak performance isn’t something we win,” Steven Kotler writes in his brilliant book The Art of the Impossible. “There are no fixed rules, no established…
1: Author Steven Kotler is a skier. “I started skiing when I was five years old and have never stopped,” Steven Kotler writes in The…
1: Imagine it’s 9:30 am on a Wednesday morning. We are sitting at our desk. We receive an email from a colleague: “The waves are…
“If you make every game a life and death proposition, you’re going to have problems. For one thing, you’ll be dead a lot.” —Dean Smith
1: The year was 1977. Edward Deci and Richard Ryan were young psychologists at the University of Rochester. On the day they met, Edward had…
Getting better at getting better is what RiseWithDrew is all about. Monday through Thursday, we explore ideas from authors, thought leaders, and exemplary organizations. On Friday,…
Different goals. Different stories. Yesterday, we looked a the power of a springboard story. 1: As leaders, we want to have many different types of…
1: “Human communication has its own set of very unusual and counterintuitive rules.” Malcolm Gladwell tells us. Exhibit one: If we want to inspire people…