This Friday’s external resource is not a TED Talk, but instead from Harvard Business School’s Working Knowledge blog.
In a very interesting post Francesca Gino talks about how and why we get side-tracked.
Why, despite out best efforts, we don’t follow though as we plan, or sometimes, not at all.
Click here to read the post.
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