Self-management

Brandon Schauer at Adaptive Path has put together a 49-second video designed to invigorate your corpus callosum and fire your creative powers. In a blog post, he says that his creation builds on research showing that side-to-side eye movement, by increasing communication between the left and right hemisphere, can increase creativity. If you’re facing a […]

Richard Ryan, one of the behavioral scientists whose research figures prominently in Drive, thinks you might be, according to a recently released paper. But the reason for this “weekend effect” isn’t leisure, he says. It’s autonomy most of all — as well as the satisfaction that comes from emotional relationships.  On Saturdays and Sundays, he […]

This weekend’s Parade magazine features an interesting interview with mega-star Harrison Ford. To my surprise, Ford spends little time talking about mega-ness or stardom. Instead, the carpenter-turned-actor offers some very keen insights on human motivation, especially the elusive and frustrating nature of mastery. “When I was a carpenter, I once worked with this Russian lady […]

Andy Smallman, head of the Puget Sound Community School in Seattle, has come up with a social innovation that’s ingenious, inspiring, and infectious. He calls it “kindness class.” Each week students in the online course get an assignment. In week one, they do something kind for themselves. In week two, they do something kind for […]

(A “video excerpt” of Drive, created by the fantabulous Lindsey Testolin.)

The year and the decade are coming to an end (three cheers for that!), which means that many people are now contemplating their New Year’s resolutions. If you’re among those folks, there’s one resolution I hope you’ll consider for your office: Radically revamping performance reviews. New Year’s resolutions and performance reviews actually have a lot […]

FINAL UPDATE (12/28; 1:30pm, EST): Okay. We’re full — actually, more than full. Thanks for the great response! In the early evening of December 22, I announced that as a thank-you to the thousands of you who have pre-ordered Drive, I’d be offering a free New Year’s Day teleseminar for 500 people. The response has […]

To celebrate the arrival of 2010 and to thank the astonishing number of you who are pre-ordering Drive (the number of early orders already beats the monthly sales of AWNM‘s debut!), I am offering a free, exclusive New Year’s Day teleseminar. To participate, simply email the receipt for your Drive order to [email protected]. You’ll be […]

Just back from TED Global, which was one of the few conferences I’ve attended that actually lived up to its billing. Even for a jaded dude like me, it was quite remarkable. Nearly all the talks were excellent. And Bunko winner Becky Blanton absolutely, totally, positively rocked the house in her 6 minutes of brilliance […]

One of the great things about a long project, like the book I’m finishing now, is not only the source of satisfaction at the end — but also what you learn about yourself and how you work along the way.What I’m discovering, or perhaps confirming, this time around is what kind of animal I am.To […]