"Would you be interested in acting in public office or politics?" they asked me at a lively dinner, while I gave my enthusiastic o...

To avoid priority proliferation, managers can inject discipline into the prioritization process by making choices more explicitly and system...

You have the life you’re willing to put up with.  Think about it. What are the problems, those heinous, dark shadows currently spoiling the ...

Contrary to what many consulting firms would like for you to believe (and pay for), change practitioners don’t need any special certificatio...

Mind-sets ingrained by past management practices remain ingrained far beyond the existence of the practices that formed them, even when new ...

A nudge is an intervention that maintains freedom of choice but steers people in a particular direction. A tax isn’t a nudge. A subsidy isn’...

The way of the Nonessentialist is to go big on everything: to try to do it all, have it all, fit it all in. The Nonessentialist operates und...

The Latin root of the word decision - cis or cid - literally means "to cut" or "to kill."  You can see this in the words...

  I did not set out to write a chapter about courage. But the deeper I have looked at the subject of Essentialism the more clearly I have se...

  A Nonessentialist approaches every trade-off by asking, "How can I do both?" Essentialists ask the tougher but ultimately more l...

The way of the Essentialist means living by design, not by default. Instead of making choices reactively, the Essentialist deliberately dist...

“If you’re already meeting for worthwhile topics, you can do a quick update,” says Axtell . You might say at the end, Is there anything that...

  A wareness  represents a person's understanding of the nature of change, why the change is being made and the risk of not changing. Aw...

A childhood experience introduced me to the idea that some choices are good but others are better. I lived for two years on a farm. We rarel...

Both abundance and lack [of abundance] exist simultaneously in our lives, as parallel realities. It is always our conscious choice which sec...

"S trategy is a framework to guide critical choices to achieve a desired future,” said MIT Sloan senior lecturer Donald Sull in a new ...

Accountability breeds response-ability . Commitment and involvement produce change. In training executives, we use a step-by-step, natural, ...

Saying things like "I have to work 60 hours a week," or "I had no choice but to say yes" infers you're a victim o...

We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of br...

“I walked with my friend, a Quaker, to the newsstand the other night, and he bought a paper, thanking the newsie politely. The newsie didn’...