If you’re new to MovingFromMeToWe.com, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!When I was a reporter covering business trends and profiles of executives throughout Europe the stories usually fascinated me, yet I was often more struck by the off-hand advice of my interpreter, a young French woman. Amélie has become [...]

I am gratified by the 249 comments to this post I wrote for Harvard Business Review and seek your specific tips on quotability, the first step to connecting in this increasingly complex, information-flooded, and connected world: You can feel the tension in the compressed smiles, quick nods and pointed questions at the annual Morgan Stanley Global [...]

Mike wasn’t aware that we were closely watching him as he strode into the pool table showroom but he was the ninth unwitting participant in our experiment. He glanced at the sign “Three Most Popular Models” that hung above an ornately carved, antique pool table, flanked closely on either side by a bare-bones model and [...]

Reinventing himself when he arrived at college Sam, “who had never had much luck with women” successfully beguiled a string of women into one-night stands, leaving his male friends shaking their heads in wonder because the women, though dumped, saw him as “sensitive, caring and sweet.” Also odd, Sam took up the habit of frequently [...]

If villagers living in the midst of poverty and war can be nudged to work better together with just three simple rules (honed via a parental competition study) and a reward (money, in this case) then maybe your group (team, board, committee, etc.) could too: 1. The village leaders (or your project leader) are elected by secret ballot. 2. The village (or [...]

In a world that increasingly favors thinkers (vs. laborers) huge changes are happening, including these four, observes Arnold King: 1.  The nature of marriage has changed: “Men & women look for complementarity in consumption rather than in production.” 2.  “Achievement-oriented men looking for interesting mates rather than for good maids.” 3.  There’s “greater inequality across households” - and [...]

Unconditional love is a swell idea yet admit it.  Aren’t there times you’d like to change other’s behavior? Get them to act right, like you.  Or perhaps you’d like to drop a bad habit.  Then learn how to “nudge.” That’s a situational prompt that sways people to change. For example, the traditional approach to getting drivers to [...]

Steve Jobs sparked hot debate about the rich “getting to jump to the head of the line” when he revealed that he was able to get a liver transplant in a remarkably short time. 5,771 Americans are waiting for a liver. Last year, 1,481 Americans died waiting. People’s lives could be saved simply by changing the law to an opt-out option [...]

“Presidential candidate George Bush will be active in making pronouncements in the coming weeks… He wants to define himself before his opponents do it for him,” intoned a radio commentator when the previous Bush became president. Yes, nicknames stick. “To name a thing is not the same as to know a thing,” Richard Feynman wrote, [...]

More than your solitary smarts, your capacity to do something extraordinary depends on something else. It is your ability to build on the work of others from the past or with others at the same time. So said Malcolm Gladwell at last year’s New Yorker conference. This may be a key theme in Outliers: Why [...]