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Made to Stick

Disciplines:
marketing
communication
persuasion
heath brothers

Summary

Chip and Dan Heath's 2007 framework for why some ideas stick and others fade — the SUCCESs model (Simple, Unexpected, Concrete, Credible, Emotional, Stories) — providing a checklist for designing memorable and persuasive communication.

Core Contribution

Operationalizes the science of sticky ideas — Made to Stick's SUCCESs model provides communicators with specific, testable dimensions that make ideas memorable, fixing a gap between academic research on memory and practical communication advice.

Historical Influences

Chip Heath Dan Heath

Intellectual Lineage

Chip Heath Dan Heath Random House

Allied Works

Contagious The Tipping Point

Contemporaries & Peers

Contagious The Tipping Point

Minds Influenced

Marketing and communication practiceLenny's Podcast

Intellectual Posterity

Made to Stick SUCCESs model Sticky ideas

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