Learn how Paul O’Neill enabled ALCOA’s journey to a SAFER WORKPLACE?
Charles Duhigg in his best seller named The Power of Habit illustrates how a tweak in the habit loop enabled Alcoa’s journey to a safer workplace. Paul O’Neill was the orchestrator of the change and enabled ALCOA share value to skyrocket by adopting such a novel method.
As illustrated below, a change in reporting mechanism based on the trigger of any possible injury helped kick in the habit loop.
Inspired from The Power of Habit, shown below is how the change in the habit report that enabled Alcoa become a safer place to work in.
The Power of Habit – Charles Duhigg
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How can a simple Habit Loop Tweak help you to Quit Smoking?
Charles Duhigg illustrates how a simple tweak in the habit loop can help you to quit smoking.
The Cue, Reward remain the same just that the Routine needs to change. As illustrated in the following snapshot, the CRAVING for SMOKING can remain the same just that the same craving can be fulfilled by a different ROUTINE to derive the pleasure or the REWARD.
This is the scientific method adopted from many rehab centers to convert smokers to non smokers by instilling self belief by making them part of like minded communities.
The Power of Habit – Charles Duhigg
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Charles Duhigg in his best selling book named The Power of Habit mentions in depth about keystone habits. These keystone habits start a process have a cascading effect in our lives and in turn are responsible for transforming our lives.
The following insight adopted from this book throws more light on such keystone habits.
The Power of Habit – Charles Duhigg
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The insight has been adopted from Charles’s Duhigg’s best selling book, The Power of Habit and can help to radically improve the performance of your employees.
“Simply giving employees a sense of agency– a feeling that they are in control, that they have genuine decision-making authority – can radically increase how much energy and focus they bring to their jobs.”
Flex Will Power as a Muscle for lasting change in your lives
Charles Duhigg illuminates us with this fascinating insight in The Power of Habit.
“As people strengthened their willpower muscles in one part of their lives—in the gym, or a money management program—that strength spilled over into what they ate or how hard they worked. Once willpower became stronger, it touched everything.”
In his best selling book “The Power of Habit”, Charles Duhigg has very aptly illustrated the power of human habits. This book is an inspiration to many how want to inculcate good habits in their daily lives.
“Habits are powerful, but delicate. They can emerge outside our consciousness, or can be deliberately designed. They often occur without our permission, but can be reshaped by fiddling with their parts. They shape our lives far more than we realize—they are so strong, in fact, that they cause our brains to cling to them at the exclusion of all else, including common sense.”
Charles Duhigg – The Power of Habit
Let’s all motivate ourselves to develop the right habits for the benefit of ourselves and mankind.
Champions don’t do extraordinary things. They do ordinary things, but they do them without thinking, too fast for the other team to react. They follow the habits they’ve learned. Thus champions master ordinary things based on development of habits.
Charles Duhigg enlightens on this in his book The Power of Habit
Habits make us do extraordinary things by accumulation of incremental results over a period of time. But this needs focus, concentration and stamina.