Habits: Why We Do What We Do

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Harvard Business Review

Leadership, Entrepreneurship, Communication, Marketing, Business, Business/management, Management, Business/marketing, Business/entrepreneurship, Innovation, Hbr, Strategy, Economics, Finance, Teams, Harvard

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🗓️ 7 June 2012

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Charles Duhigg, reporter for The New York Times and author of "The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business."

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0:18.3	wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome to the HBR Ideacast from Harvard Business Review.
0:33.4	I'm Justin Fox and I'm talking today with Charles Doohig, a reporter for the New York Times
0:37.8	and author of The Power of Habit,
0:40.5	why we do what we do in life and business.
0:43.0	He's also a graduate of Harvard Business School, for whatever that's worth.
0:47.0	Charles, welcome to IdeaCast.
0:48.0	Thank you so much for having me.
0:50.0	So, what's such a big deal about habits?
0:52.0	Well, habits are a big deal about habits?
0:53.0	Well, habits are a big deal not only in our lives, right?
0:56.0	Because about 40 to 45% of what we do every day
0:59.0	sort of feels like a decision, but it's actually a habit.
1:01.0	But equally importantly, habits are a really big deal within companies.
1:05.0	And we know this because in the last 10 or 15 years there's been this real wealth of an
1:10.0	explosion in research in looking at organizational routines or organizational
1:14.5	habits and trying to understand how those influence how work gets done and
1:18.8	what we've learned is that a huge amount of whether a company succeeds or fails is based not on sort of the big strategy
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