Chip Heath

Dan Heath

A groundbreaking resource for those who need to deliver a memorable message introduces six key principles that help make messages stick--simplicity, unexpectedness, concreteness, credibility, emotions, and stories--and explains how to incorporate each of these factors into the creative thought process. 100,000 first printing.

Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die

Made to Stick

The New York Times bestselling authors of Switch and Made to Stick explore why certain brief experiences can jolt us and elevate us and change us—and how we can learn to create such extraordinary moments in our life and work. While human lives are endlessly variable, our most memorable positive moments are dominated by four elements: elevation, insight, pride, and connection. If we embrace these elements, we can conjure more moments that matter. What if a teacher could design a lesson that he knew his students would remember twenty years later? What if a manager knew how to create an experience that would delight customers? What if you had a better sense of how to create memories that matter for your children? This book delves into some fascinating mysteries of experience: Why we tend to remember the best or worst moment of an experience, as well as the last moment, and forget the rest. Why “we feel most comfortable when things are certain, but we feel most alive when they’re not.” And why our most cherished memories are clustered into a brief period during our youth. Readers discover how brief experiences can change lives, such as the experiment in which two strangers meet in a room, and forty-five minutes later, they leave as best friends. (What happens in that time?) Or the tale of the world’s youngest female billionaire, who credits her resilience to something her father asked the family at the dinner table. (What was that simple question?) Many of the defining moments in our lives are the result of accident or luck—but why would we leave our most meaningful, memorable moments to chance when we can create them? The Power of Moments shows us how to be the author of richer experiences.

Why Certain Experiences Have Extraordinary Impact

The Power of Moments

___________________________________ Change is hard. It doesn't have to be. We all know that change is hard. It's unsettling, it's time-consuming, and all too often we give up at the first sign of a setback. But why do we insist on seeing the obstacles rather than the goal? This is the question that bestselling authors Chip and Dan Heath tackle in their compelling and insightful book. They argue that we need only understand how our minds function in order to unlock shortcuts to switches in behaviour. Illustrating their ideas with scientific studies and remarkable real-life turnarounds - from the secrets of successful marriage counselling to the pile of gloves that transformed one company's finances - the brothers Heath prove that deceptively simple methods can yield truly extraordinary results.

How to change things when change is hard

Switch

Karla Starr

Whether you're interested in global problems like climate change, and understanding that the Australian wildfires destroyed an area twice the size of Portugal, or just grasping how few people have washed their hands between visiting the bathroom and touching your hands, this book will help math-lovers and math-haters alike translate the numbers that animate our world. Until very recently, most languages had no words for numbers greater than five - anything from six to infinity was known as 'lots'. While the numbers in our world have become increasingly complex, our brains are stuck in the past. Yet the ability to communicate and understand numbers has never mattered more. So how can we more effectively translate numbers and stats so that the data comes alive? Drawing on years of research into making ideas stick, Chip Heath and Karla Starr outline six critical principles that will give anyone the tools to communicate numbers with more transparency and meaning. Using concepts such as simplicity, concreteness and familiarity, the authors reveal what's compelling about a number and show how to transform it into its most engaging form. Making Numbers Count is a lively, practical, first-of-its-kind guide to turning cold, clinical data into a memorable story.

The art and science of communicating numbers

Making Numbers Count

Just making a decision can be hard enough, but how do you begin to judge whether it's the right one? Chip and Dan Heath, authors of #1 New York Times best-seller Switch, show you how to overcome your brain's natural shortcomings. In Decisive, Chip and Dan Heath draw on decades of psychological research to explain why we so often get it very badly wrong - why our supposedly rational brains are frequently tripped up by powerful biases and wishful thinking. At the same time they demonstrate how relatively easy it is to avoid the pitfalls and find the best answers, offering four simple principles that we can all learn and follow. In the process, they show why it is that experts frequently make mistakes. They demonstrate the perils of getting trapped in a narrow decision frame. And they explore people's tendency to be over-confident about how their choices will unfold. Drawing on case studies as diverse as the downfall of Kodak and the inspiring account of a cancer survivor, they offer both a fascinating tour through the workings of our minds and an invaluable guide to making smarter decisions. Winner in the Practical Manager category of the CMI Management Book of the Year awards 2014.

How to make better choices in life and work

Decisive

From Chip and Dan Heath, the bestselling authors of Switch and Made to Stick, comes The Myth of the Garage ... and other minor surprises, a collection of the authors' best columns for Fast Company magazine. There are 16 pieces in all, plus a previously unpublished piece entitled 'The Future Fails Again'. In Myth, the Heath brothers tackle some of the most (and least) important issues in the modern business world: - Why you should never buy another mutual fund ('The Horror of Mutual Funds') - Why your gut may be more ethical than your brain ('In Defense of Feelings') - How to communicate with numbers in a way that changes decisions ('The Gripping Statistic') - Why the 'Next Big Thing' often isn't ('The Future Fails Again') - Why you may someday pay $300 for a pair of socks ('The Inevitability of $300 Socks') - And 12 others . . . Punchy, entertaining, and full of unexpected insights, the collection is the perfect companion for a short flight (or a long meeting).

The Myth of the Garage

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Ana García Bertrán

Cómo afrontar cambios que parecen imposibles

Cambia el chip

Key Takeaways, Analysis & Review

Switch by Chip Heath and Dan Heath

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James G. March

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How Decisions Happen

A Primer on Decision Making

Una buena idea puede cambiarlo todo. Si quieres tener ideas poderosas y comunicarlas de manera efectiva para conseguir un cambio de conducta o modificar las opiniones de tus empleados, compradores, hijos, lectores o alumnos, Ideas que pegan es tu libro. Provocativo, de amplias miras y divertido, los autores muestran los principios vitales de las ideas ganadoras a través de seis claves concretas para hacer que tus mensajes sean pegadizos. Ilustrado con ejemplos de sectores muy diversos -negocios, publicidad, educación, movimientos sociales, etc.-, los hermanos Heath explican por qué algunas ideas triunfan y otras fracasan en el intento. Traducido a más de 25 idiomas, Ideas que pegan es un éxito de ventas en todo el mundo que está ayudando a miles de profesionales del marketing, creativos, ejecutivos de cuentas del mundo de la publicidad, directores de Comunicación, directivos en general y a todas aquellas personas que quieren hacer que sus mensajes lleguen, impacten y se peguen en la memoria.

Por qué algunas ideas sobreviven y otras mueren

Ideas que pegan

Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work

The four principles that can help people overcome the brain's natural biases to make better, more informed decisions. The Heaths, the bestselling authors of "Made to Stick" and "Switch," tackle the thorny problem of how to overcome natural biases.

How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work

How to Change Things When Change Is Hard

Momentos mágicos

Decídete. Cómo tomar las mejores decisiones en la vida y en el trabajo

Tout le monde a déjà eu vent de légendes urbaines. Ces dernières débutent toujours par: « Un ami d'un ami... ». Avez-vous remarqué que la vie des amis de vos amis est toujours plus passionnante que la vie de vos amis? La plupart des légendes urbaines ne s'oublient pas. Elles « collent »: on les comprend instantanément, on s'en souvient et on peut les raconter. Ce livre fait le pari qu'on peut rendre tout aussi captivantes des idées apparemment austères, compliquées ou franchement ennuyeuses, comme la stratégie d'une entreprise, une leçon de physique, un message de santé publique. Les deux frères Chip et Dan, chacun à partir de sa propre expérience, l'un d'éditeur, l'autre de professeur à Stanford, ont réfléchi à ce qui fait qu'une idée adhère. Les proverbes, les légendes urbaines, les idées reçues leur ont fourni un matériau particulièrement riche de réflexions. Voici un petit échantillon de légendes urbaines: - La muraille de Chine est la seule réalisation humaine visible à l'oeil nu - On utilise que 10% de son cerveau - Le coca-cola ronge les os, etc. Ils ont acquis la conviction que certaines idées possédaient des caractéristiques qui les rendent collantes et, qu'en étudiant leur structure, on pouvait non seulement rendre certaines idées adhésives mais qu'on pouvait également concevoir des idées qui marquent et qui durent. Cet ouvrage livre leur méthode pour rendre les idées adhésives.

Michael Allred

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