The different ways that social change happens, from unleashing to nudging to social cascades. "Sunstein's book is illuminating because it puts norms at the center of how we think about change."—David Brooks, The New York Times How does social change happen? When do social movements take off? Sexual harassment was once something that women had to endure; now a movement has risen...(展开全部)

A changed heart is the bright promise of the gospel. When the Bible talks about the gift of a new heart, it doesn't mean a heart that is immediately perfected, but a heart that is capable of being changed. Jesus' work on the cross targets our hearts---our core desires and motivations---and when our hearts change, our behavior changes. It's amazing to watch people who once seeme...(展开全部)

Why is it so hard to make lasting changes in our companies, in our communities, and in our own lives? The primary obstacle is a conflict that’s built into our brains, say Chip and Dan Heath, authors of the critically acclaimed bestseller Made to Stick . Psychologists have discovered that our minds are ruled by two different systems—the rational mind and the emotional mind—that ...(展开全部)

Like people, buildings change with age, forced to adapt to the needs of current occupations. This provocative examination of buildings that have adapted well, and some that haven't, calls for a dramatic rethinking in the way new buildings are designed, one that allows structures to grow and change easily with the environment. Photos.

The starting point of How Proust can change your Life is that a great novel can be nothing less than life-transforming. This is an unusual claim: our education system, while stressing that novels are highly worthwhile, rarely investigates why this is so. How Proust can change your Life takes Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time as the basis for a sustained investigation into ...(展开全部)

Want to know how to influence other people's behaviour? In The Advertising Effect, respected advertising insider, Adam Ferrier, reveals the ten techniques used by some of the best-known brands across the globe. These techniques are grounded in psychological theory with award winning real world examples and explore how the most effective way to change behaviour is through action...(展开全部)

'I still remember arriving in the city for the first time... It wasn't easy... But here, London, is my home.' Yumiko is a young Japanese woman who has made London her home. She has a job, a boyfriend; Japan seems far away. Then, out of the blue, her brother calls to tell her that her father has died in a mountaineering accident. Yumiko returns to Tokyo for the funeral and finds...(展开全部)

约翰 P. 科特（John P. Kotter） 举世闻名的领导力专家，世界顶级企业领导与变革领域最权威的代言人。他的核心思想是领导与变革。曾服务过的客户包括高级微型设备公司（AMD）、美国运通（American Express）、ARCO、雅芳（Avon）、通用电气（General Electric）、IBM、摩托罗拉（Motorola）、壳牌石油（Shell Oil）、索尼（Sony）等。科特1947年出生于美国圣迭哥，早年先后就读于麻省理工学院及哈佛大学，1972年开始执教于哈佛商学院，1980年，年仅33岁的科特成为哈佛商学院的终身教授，他和“竞争战略之父”迈克尔•波特是哈佛历史上获此项殊荣的最年轻得主。 科特已经出版了18种书籍，其中12种都在畅销书榜中名列前茅。他的书籍和文章被翻译成超过150种外文版本。

《槍炮、病菌與鋼鐵》、 《大崩壞》賈德‧戴蒙Jared Diamond 文明興衰三部曲最終章 面對存亡的動盪轉捩點，什麼行動決定國家的命運？ UCLA教授賈德‧戴蒙Jared Diamond無疑是當今最具指標性的權威學者，跨越單一學門的專業，結合地理、歷史、考古各方知識，從龐雜與紛亂中找出關鍵，形塑出獨特的理解框架，讓人以全新的觀點看待歷史的演變推動。更在理解過去之外，將提煉出的知識，提供當代所用。 動盪，是描述我們當下生活世界的關鍵詞。我們看見國家之內的力量興衰、國與國之間關係的改變、甚或全球共同面對的環境災害、暖化等棘手問題。身處在這些前途未明的迷惘徬徨中，歷史，可以給我們什麼指引？而這正是賈德‧戴蒙在本書想找出解答的──當國家面對動盪危局，為何有的國家成功挺過挑戰，有的卻以失敗收場？ 再次發揮自己縱觀歷史的專才，以心理治療理論為基礎，從個人面對...(展开全部)

Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting team, husband and wife Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, take us on a journey through Africa and Asia to meet an extraordinary array of exceptional women struggling against terrible circumstances. More girls have been killed in the last fifty years, precisely because they are girls, than men were killed in all the wars of the twentieth cent...(展开全部)