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Chip Heath

Disciplines:
usa
psychology/decision making
higher education/stanford
management/organizational behavior

Summary

American professor at Stanford Graduate School of Business who wrote Made to Stick, Switch, Decisive, and The Power of Moments with his brother Dan Heath — translating academic research on cognition, decision-making, and persuasion into practical frameworks for business.

Core Contribution

Created the most actionable popular frameworks for decision quality and communication — Made to Stick's SUCCESs model (Simple Unexpected Concrete Credible Emotional Stories) and Decisive's WRAP process (Widen your options, Reality-test your assumptions, Attain distance before deciding, Prepare to be wrong) are among the most widely used practical frameworks in business.

Notable Works & Achievements

Made to Stick

Switch

Decisive

The Power of Moments

Historical Influences

Behavioral science research Dan Heath

Intellectual Lineage

Stanford GSB Made to Stick Switch Decisive The Power of Moments

Contemporaries & Peers

Dan Heath Daniel Kahneman Malcolm Gladwell

Minds Influenced

Business communication and decision frameworksLenny's Podcast

Intellectual Posterity

Made to Stick SUCCESs model Switch Decisive Chip and Dan Heath as popular business authors

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