1: Tynan thought mindfulness and meditation were “too wishy-washy and time consuming,” he writes in Superhuman by Habit. When he tried meditating, he found it…

1: The year was 1993.  GE CEO Jack Welch was in Japan when he heard a story about the country’s railway system. After World War…

1: A GE worker had an idea. He suggested to his managers that they stop outsourcing the construction of protective shields for their grinding machines,…

1: “It was the late 1980s and GE was the second most valuable company in America,” Charles Duhigg writes in Smarter Faster Better: The Transformative Power of…

1: Sleeping as long as you want? Waking up without an alarm clock? This may sound like being on vacation, Tynan writes in his book…

1: There are often tense moments at the beginning of a Crucial Conversation. The stakes are high, opinions vary, and emotions can get intense. “Others…

1: Some people are total jerks. “Deep down and all the way through,” write Joseph Grenny, Kerry Patterson, and their co-authors in their classic book  Crucial Conversations. Yep.…

1: Consider this. Has there ever been a time when you received really tough feedback from someone, and you didn’t become defensive? “Instead, you absorbed…

1: What is a crucial conversation? The stakes are high, opinions differ, and emotions run strong, write Joseph Grenny, Kerry Patterson, and their co-authors in their classic…

1: Of all the potential habits to focus on, “health habits are some of my favorites to work on because they have extraordinarily high payoffs,”…