When a CEO improves on business productivity, that helps to improve on her work-life management. It’s important for Read More
When A CEO Improves On Business Productivity……
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Think you like what you like? Think again
A funny thing happens when you lie to people: they tend to believe. Why shouldn’t they? They lie Read More
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Guns and Cyber Security
The online world can be a dangerous place for the unprepared. And it’s just going to get worse. Read More
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Designing to reward our tribal sides
We are a species that depend on one another. Scientists theorize humans have specially adapted neurons that help us feel Read More
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This Will Be the Last Article You Read
If the Internet had a voice, I am fairly certain it would sound like the HAL 9000 from 2001: A Space Read More
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Ways to get people to do things they don’t want to do
A reader recently asked me a pointed question: “I’ve read your work on creating user habits. It’s all Read More
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Top 10 lessons learned articles in 2012
While 2010 and 2011 were the most recent years in which entrepreneurs had the upper hand over venture Read More
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How to Think About Marketing an Innovation
Innovation is all about value, and both internal communications and external marketing have a critical role to play Read More
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The network effect isn’t good enough….
Note: I’m pleased to have co-authored this post with Sangeet Paul Choudary, who analyzes business models for network businesses at Platformed.info. Follow Read More
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Escape from message hell
We are caught in an endless cycle of messaging hell and the pattern is always the same. First, Read More
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How investment drives engagement
This week, Baba Shiv and I taught a class at the Stanford Graduate School of Business called, “Using Read More
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Getting Your Product Into the Habit Zone
As the web becomes an increasingly crowded place, users are desperate for solutions to sort through the online Read More
At Vator’s first Spark event, the focus was on gamification. Here’s the video of the panel: “How startups Read More
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Make your users do the work
The belief that products should always be as easy to use as possible is a sacred cow of Read More
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How Sports Infects Your Brain
How Sports Infect Your Brain by Nir Eyal in Users Note: I co-authored this post with Andrew Martin and David Ngo. It originally Read More