1、#225 Made to Stick1奥运营销之广告文案六大步骤MADE TO STICKWhy Some Ideas Survive and Others DieCHIP HEATH and DAN HEATHCHIP HEATH is a professor of organizational behavior in the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University. His research focuses on why some ideas survive and ultimately thrive in the broade
2、r marketplace of ideas. Dr. Heaths articles have appeared in Scientific American, the Financial Times, The Washington Post, Business Week, Psychology Today, and Vanity Fair. He is a graduate of Texas A&M University and Stanford. DAN HEATH is a consultant at Duke Corporate Education. He is a former r
3、esearcher for Harvard Business School who now specializes in designing and delivering corporate training programs. Mr. Heath, a graduate of Harvard Business School and the University of Texas at Austin, also co-founded Thinkwell Inc., a company that develops multimedia college textbooks. MAIN IDEA“S
4、ticky” ideas are those that are highly memorable and exceptionally long-lasting in their impact. Everyone in business would like to develop ideas that are sticky, as would most parents when they are attempting to teach values to their children. So what exactly is it that makes an idea sticky in the
5、first place? While there are no hard and fast formulas for developing a sticky idea, there is a short checklist of six principles that most of the successful sticky ideas of the past have tended to use: #225 Made to Stick2To develop sticky ideas, make your message: 1 Simple State the essential core
6、of your idea succinctly 2 Unexpected Use surprise to grab peoples attention 3 Concrete Pack in solid ideas and images 4 Credible Embed credentials right into your message 5 Emotional Make the listener feel something6 Story-based Help people learn how they should respond “This is an idea success stor
7、y. Even better, its a truthful idea success story. We wrote this book to help you make your ideas stick. By stick, we mean that your ideas are understood and remembered, and have a lasting impactthey change your audiences opinions or behavior. When we ask people how often they need to make an idea s
8、tick, they tell us the need arises between once a month and once a week. For managers, these are big ideas about new strategic directions and guidelines for behavior. Columnists try to change readers opinions on policy issues. Religious leaders try to share spiritual wisdom with their congregants. N
9、onprofit organizations try to persuade volunteers to contribute their time and donors to contribute their money to a worthy cause. Given the importance of making ideas stick, its surprising how little attention is paid to the subject.” Chip Heath and Dan Heath Trait 1 Simple State the Essential Core
10、 of Your Idea Succinctly Main IdeaThe ideal here is to create ideas that are both simple and profound, like proverbs that exist in every culture around the world. To come up with something profound, youll probably need to forego all of the supporting points you could mention and instead find a simpl
11、e way to express one main point. This is not as easy as it sounds. #225 Made to Stick3Supporting IdeasWeed out Superfluous ElementsTo simplify your message doesnt mean to “dumb it down” or to make it into a fluffy “sound bite.” Instead, what youre trying to do is to get to the essential core of your
12、 idea. Usually, to get to that core, you have to weed out all of the superfluous elements that confuse rather than amplify or clarify. To create a sticky message, you have to then communicate the core idea and leave everything else out. Success storiesTo see how this is done in practice, consider so
13、me successful sticky messages: During Bill Clintons successful 1992 campaign for the Presidency of the United States, James Carville was one of Clintons key political advisors. He came up with three phrases that could become the core message of Clintons campaign. Of those three choices, one resonate
14、d well with everyone: “Its the economy, stupid.” This subsequently became the theme of Clintons campaign, even though Bill Clinton personally wanted to talk about lots of other things. His advisers kept bringing him back to this one single idea again and again, and eventually the voters got the idea
15、. Everyone knows Southwest Airlines is a company that encourages its employees to have fun on the job, but that isnt what makes the company successful. Instead, Southwest focuses on just one single goal: to become THE lowest fare airline by reducing costs. As a result of that intensive focus, everyo
16、ne knows where they stand with the companys management. If you have an idea that will help them cut costs, they will welcome you with open arms. If your new idea isnt aligned with that aim, they wont have much time to talk with you. In the 1980s, the United States Army changed the way it drafted its
17、 orders. Planners were aware that even their best laid plans were often made ineffective by the actions of the enemy ten minutes into #225 Made to Stick4a battle. Therefore, they developed a concept called “Commanders Intent.” This means that whenever an order is given, there is a crisp, plain-talk
18、statement included that specifies the orders goal. Soldiers are then able to improvise as required to respond to the actions of the enemy. Having the commanders intent spelled out means that the most important goal of the operation is articulated and understood by everyone with hands-on involvement.
19、 The person who is out in the field can improvise because the ultimate goal is clear. How to Express Your IdeaAlmost always, when you get to the true core of your message, youll find that the idea can be expressed compactly rather than requiring extensive verbiage. This is what makes proverbs so pow
20、erful and universal. They are short and simple statements that pack loads of common sense and wisdom into a few words. Proverbs are easily and readily expressed, but can take a lifetime to live. For example: “A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.” “Do unto others as you would have them do unt
21、o you.” The analogy methodIdeas that are simple have an undeniable elegance and utility. They cut to the chase because they fight the temptation to do too much. However, theres no use being compact but saying nothing. In addition to delivering a compact idea, sticky messages are also quite profound.
22、 They say something worthwhile. A good, practical way of achieving this is to use an analogy that compares something unknown with some idea that is very familiar. This technique is commonly used in Hollywood to pitch new movie concepts and ideas. For example: Speed is Die Hard on a bus. Alien is Jaw
23、s on a spaceship. This technique is also widely used in teaching and in business: The human brain is like a computer, only vastly more powerful #225 Made to Stick5and adaptable. An atom is like a miniature solar system, with the nucleus taking the place of the sun and electrons taking the place of t
24、he various planets orbiting the sun. Disney doesnt hire “employees” at its theme parksit hires “performers” who are expected to entertain the guests at the same time as they complete their assigned tasks. The inverted pyramid formatSticky ideas use these same principles. They express something subst
25、antive and important in a concise way that is easy for people to pick up on and then later recall. In many ways, sticky ideas are constructed like newspaper articles in that they have the most important idea right out in front where it is obvious. This inverted pyramid format is great for readers be
26、cause they can read the first sentence and then decide whether or not they need to read the rest of the story. This is also useful for the newspaper editors because if they need to shorten an article, they can delete paragraphs from the bottom of the article without any problems whatsoever. The form
27、at is also good for the writer because it forces prioritization. Sticky ideas put the core messagethe equivalent of the leadright out in front where it can gain the attention it deserves. All kinds of other supporting information can be added at later stages, but the fact that one central unifying t
28、heme or concept is highlighted is invaluable. #225 Made to Stick6Key Thoughts“I can teach you the secret to running this airline in thirty seconds. This is it: We are THE low-fare airline. Once you understand that fact, you can make any decision about this companys future as well as I can.” Herb Kel
29、leher, former CEO, Southwest Airlines “Finding the core and expressing it in the form of a compact idea can be enduringly powerful.” Chip Heath and Dan Heath Trait 2Unexpected Use Surprise to Grab Peoples Attention Main IdeaTo get people to pay attention, you have to violate their expectations and b
30、e counterintuitive. Surprise is good as an initial attention getter but it doesnt last. For a sticky idea to endure, it has to generate interest and curiosity. It has to open gaps in peoples knowledge and then fill them. Supporting Ideas2 Challenges Must First Be OvercameThe two quite different chal
31、lenges here are: How do you get peoples attention in the first place? Surprising factsThis is usually a matter of surprising them by breaking the pattern they are expecting. Naturally sticky ideas often propose surprising facts: The Great Wall of China is visible from space. You use only 10 percent
32、of your brain. You should drink eight glasses of water a day. A joltWhen you surprise people by jolting them out of familiar #225 Made to Stick7patterns, you cause them to think and ultimately act differently. The challenge is to make the surprise tie back to the sticky idea rather than coming acros
33、s as a cheap sales gimmick. In surprising people, you need to break their in-built guessing machine and then propose a rational fix. You need to do this in a way that relates directly to your core message. How do you keep their attention when and if you get it? Create a mystery to solveNaturally sti
34、cky ideas are inherently interesting and engaging. This is why people linger over gossip and spend hour after hour working on conspiracy theories. This also means that if you can manage to envelop your sticky idea in an engaging mystery that gradually unfolds, you can keep people interested for what
35、ever extended period of time is required to work through all the complexities. CuriosityCuriosity is a powerful motivator. People will sit through boring movies just to find out how things turn out, even when they dont really like or identify with any of the characters involved. Curiosity arises whe
36、never people perceive there is a gap in their knowledge base that can only be filled by doing some more research. That means the real key to keeping people immersed in a subject is to fuel their curiosity. Identify questionsIf you want to develop a genuinely sticky idea, move away from asking yourse
37、lf: “What information do I need to convey?” Instead, think more about: “What questions do I want my audience to ask?” The most common way to do this is to point out a gap in their knowledge and then provide people with what they need to fill in those gaps for themselves. Most people tend to pick up
38、on these challenges quickly and work to do just what is required. Experience Reveals Effective MethodsAs a rule of thumb, the best way to make an idea stickier is: Find the corethe central message you want to communicate above all else. Figure out something that is counterintuitive about the core me
39、ssagethat runs contrary to popular wisdom. Communicate your messagein such a way that you break the #225 Made to Stick8listeners preconceptions and then help them update or fix their beliefs. Give people a little bit of informationand encourage them to fill in the remaining gaps for themselves. Thes
40、e gaps have to be substantial enough to keep things interesting, but not so large they seem insurmountable. Success storiesConsider a few examples of using something unexpected to create a sticky idea: In 1953, Sony was a young company struggling to stay in business in post-war Japan. Its first prod
41、uct, an electric rice cooker, was a dismal failure in the marketplace. Sonys lead technologist, Masaru Ibuka, became intrigued by transistors and licensed the technology from Bell Labs. Ibuka then set his engineers the challenge of building a “pocketable radio.” This was quite a technical challenge,
42、 because at that time radios (using vacuum tubes) were large pieces of furniture. Even Bell Labs thought the idea was impossible, but Ibukas passion was contagious. Soon, all of Sonys engineers were hard at work on the project. By the time Sony released the TR-55 transistor radio in March 1957, the
43、company had grown from 50 people to more than 1,200 employees. The TR-55 sold 1.5 million units and was the product that put Sony on the world map. In May 1961, John F. Kennedy gave a speech to a joint session of Congress. This was an era when the Cold War dominated world politics, and accordingly P
44、resident Kennedy outlined a predictable series of requests. He asked for more funds to expand the U.S. foreign aid program, to beef up the NATO alliance, to shore up civil defense and some other projects. Then, at the end of his speech, he casually said: “I believe that this nation should commit its
45、elf to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth. If we make this judgement affirmatively, it will not be one man going to the moon, it will be an entire nation. For all of us must work to put him there.” This simply stated visi
46、on set off a flurry of scientific development and dictated the sustained efforts of tens of thousands of people in dozens of organizations for almost a decade. This most amazing #225 Made to Stick9sticky idea would go down in history as one of the most successful challenges ever issued by a U.S. pre
47、sident. Key Thoughts“A journalism class teacher gave his class their first assignment: They were to write the lead of a newspaper story. The teacher reeled off the facts: Kenneth L. Peters, the principal of Beverley Hills High School, announced today that the entire high school faculty will travel t
48、o Sacramento next Thursday for a colloquium in new teaching methods. Among the speakers will be anthropologist Margaret Mead, college president Dr. Robert Maynard Hutchins, and California governor Edmund Pat Brown. The budding journalists sat at their typewriters and pecked away at the first lead of
49、 their careers. Most of the students produced leads that reordered the facts and condensed them into a single sentence. The teacher collected the leads and scanned them rapidly. Then he laid them aside for a moment. Finally, he said, The lead to this story is There will be no school next Thursday. In that moment, students realized that journalism was not just about regurgitating the facts but about figuring out the point. That idea should be in the Sticky Hall of Fame.
