Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task. ~William James

Blog Posts on Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard, by Chip Heath and Dan Heath

Nov 12, 2010
This morning's reading, a quick dip into Chip and Dan Heath's business best-seller Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard , introduced me to Jonathan Haidt's (The Happiness Hypothesis) elephant and rider metaphor. ...
 
Jan 07, 2011
The library has begun sending me warning notices that Switch is due back tomorrow. It has been renewed twice, the limit. With three "grace days," I have until Tuesday at midnight to return it without incurring a fine. ...

Jan 12, 2011
This small change is representative of some of the wisdom I am gleaning from my temporarily suspended reading of Switch, in at least two ways. First of all, it is an example of "shrinking the change," which amounts to ...
 
Jan 14, 2011
One of the valuable pieces of information that I picked up in reading Chip Heath and his brother Dan's book, Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard is that self-control is exhaustible. And exhausting. ...
Jan 19, 2011
Last week, I finished reading the book Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard , by Chip Heath and Dan Heath . I found it engaging, and laced with nuggets of change strategy rooted in research findings and narratives of changes ...
Feb 18, 2011
If you read my earlier post on the work of the Heath brothers, Dan and Chip, and specifically their book Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard --or if you found your way to their thoughts on your own--you may recognize the ...
Feb 03, 2011
I suspect I have run out of self-control; just like the Heath brothers warned, in Switch . I'm tired of the grown-up me bossing the profligate me around, judging my time-wasting and focus-lacking self. ...
 
Mar 31, 2011
I have written before about Jonathan Haidt's (The Happiness Hypothesis ) elephant and rider metaphor, around which Chip Heath and Dan Heath organized their fascinating book Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard . ...