Something You Should Know about Achieving Success

February 12, 2010

Interview with Chip Heath, co-author of the book Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die

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Mike Carruthers:
Some ideas stick with us for a long time; other ideas die the minute after we hear them.

Chip Heath:
Ideas that stick - JFK's Man on the Moon speech, The Boy Who Cried Wolf, Aesop's fable that has stuck for twenty-five hundred years, the "this is your brain on drugs" campaign from the 80's.
 

Chip Heath, co-author of the book Made to Stick... 

January 20, 2010

Interview with Daniel Pink, author of the book Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us

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Mike Carruthers:
Pay for performance. That’s the model many organizations use to motivate their people; if you perform we’ll pay you money.

Daniel Pink:
And what the science shows that you've got to pay people enough, but once you pay people enough, external rewards like that (If/then rewards) don’t play that big of a role in high performance.

January 7, 2010

Interview with Timothy Ferriss, author of the book The 4-Hour Workweek, Expanded and Updated: Expanded and Updated, With Over 100 New Pages of Cutting-Edge Content.

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Mike Carruthers:
We are so available to other people with cell phones and all the other technology that we don’t have a lot of uninterrupted time to focus on the task at hand.

Timothy Ferriss:
One of the biggest sources of stress (and this is measurable) is self-interruption and interruption. Looking at some of the internal audits at Morgan Stanley people are often interrupted on average every three minutes.

Timothy Ferriss

December 22, 2009

Interview with Joe Takash, author of the book Results Through Relationships: Building Trust, Performance, and Profit Through People

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Mike Carruthers:
We all like to think we’re good listeners.

Joe Takash:
But if I give you a true/false test ten minutes after we spoke, how well what you retained what I said doesn’t say as much about your memory to me as it does how fully engaged you are in the first place.

Joe Takash, author of the book Results Through Relationships, says good listening is hard to do even for people like Joe.