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Smart Change
Book

Smart Change

Five Tools to Create New and Sustainable Habits in Yourself and Others

Perigee, 2014 plus...


Editorial Rating

8

Qualities

  • Analytical
  • Innovative
  • Applicable

Recommendation

Psychologist and professor Art Markman offers a plan of action to develop new behaviors you want to achieve. He explains why doing something positive using his “Go System” does more to create internal change than exercising willpower, which he calls the “Stop System.” He guides you through making changes in your environment and relationships. Markman offers examples and exercises to explain how his system works and how being systematic makes change possible. He provides instructions and exercises to help you start developing new habits and offers a toolkit for managers and coaches who help others launch and sustain personal change. getAbstract recommends Markman’s advice to anyone looking to make personal or professional changes.

Take-Aways

  • When you realize that a behavior isn’t working, identify what causes the problem and develop exercises to improve. That’s “Smart Change.”
  • Use five tools to implement your smart change. First, “tame the Go System,” which motivates you to adopt new behaviors and to learn to do them by rote.
  • Identify what triggers bad habits, replace them and make plans to overcome obstacles.

About the Author

Art Markman, PhD, who consults with firms across the US, also wrote Smart Thinking and Habits of Leadership. He contributes to Fast Company, Psychology Today and HuffPost.


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