Chip Heath Quotes
Top 75 wise famous quotes and sayings by Chip Heath
Chip Heath Famous Quotes & Sayings
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You don't have to speak monosyllables to be simple. What we mean by simple is finding the core of the idea.
If an atomic bomb fell on Raleigh, it wouldn't be news in Benson unless some of the debris and ashes fell on Benson.
Change is hard because people wear themselves out. And that's the second surprise about change: What looks like laziness is often exhaustion.
The simple act of committing to an answer makes the students more engaged and more curious about the outcome.
The problem is that urgencies - the most vivid and immediate circumstances - will always hog our spotlight.
Until you can ladder your way down from a change idea to a specific behavior, you're not ready to lead a switch.
Many armies fail because they put all their emphasis into creating a plan that becomes useless ten minutes into the battle
Researchers have found again and again that people act as though losses are from two to four times more painful than gains are pleasurable.
(We cut back on expenses today to yield a better balance sheet next year. We avoid ice cream today for a better body next year.)
Common sense is the enemy of sticky messages, if I already "get" what you're trying to tell me, why should I be obsessed about remembering it.
When you're at the beginning, don't obsess about the middle, because the middle is going to look different once you get there.
In this chapter, we've seen that what looks like a "character problem" is often correctible when you change the environment. The
Any time in life you're tempted to think, 'Should I do this OR that?' instead, ask yourself, 'Is there a way I can do this AND that?
Mental simulation is not as good as actually doing something. But it's the next best thing. And the right kind of a story is a simulation.
And that's the first surprise about change: What looks like a people problem is often a situation problem.
It seems some CEOs who pay extremely large acquisition premiums ... come to believe their own press.
Knowledge does not change behavior," he said. "We have all encountered crazy shrinks and obese doctors and divorced marriage counselors.
For individuals' behavior to change, you've got to influence not only their environment but their hearts and minds.
When you engineer early successes, what you're really doing is engineering hope. Hope is precious to a change effort.
Most analysts are SO SMART and have amazing ideas, but they can't convey their genius ideas to others.
Exception Question: "When was the last time you saw a little bit of the miracle, even just for a short time?
The Curse of Knowledge: when we are given knowledge, it is impossible to imagine what it's like to LACK that knowledge.
The status quo feels comfortable and steady because much of the choice has been squeezed out. You have your routines, your ways of doing things.
Rather than focusing solely on what's new and different about the change to come, make an effort to remind people what's already been conquered.
A friend of a friend . . ." Have you ever noticed that our friends' friends have much more interesting lives than our friends themselves?