Switch

Switch

作者:Chip Heath

出版社:Crown Business

出版年:2010-2-16

评分:8.6

ISBN:9780385528757

所属分类:行业好书

书刊介绍

内容简介

Why is it so hard to make lasting changes in our companies, in our communities, and in our own lives?

The primary obstacle is a conflict that’s built into our brains, say Chip and Dan Heath, authors of the critically acclaimed bestseller Made to Stick . Psychologists have discovered that our minds are ruled by two different systems—the rational mind and the emotional mind—that compete for control. The rational mind wants a great beach body; the emotional mind wants that Oreo cookie. The rational mind wants to change something at work; the emotional mind loves the comfort of the existing routine. This tension can doom a change effort—but if it is overcome, change can come quickly.

In Switch,the Heaths show how everyday people—employees and managers, parents and nurses—have united both minds and, as a result, achieved dramatic results:

● The lowly medical interns who managed to defeat an entrenched, decades-old medical practice that was endangering patients.

● The home-organizing guru who developed a simple technique for overcoming the dread of housekeeping.

● The manager who transformed a lackadaisical customer-support team into service zealots byremovinga standard tool of customer service

In a compelling, story-driven narrative, the Heaths bring together decades of counterintuitive research in psychology, sociology, and other fields to shed new light on how we can effect transformative change.Switch shows that successful changes follow a pattern, a pattern you can use to make the changes that matter to you, whether your interest is in changing the world or changing your waistline.

作品目录

Three surprises about change -- Direct the rider. Find the bright spots ; Script the critical moves ; Point to the destination -- Motivate the elephant. Find the feeling ; Shrink the change ; Grow your people -- Shape the path. Tweak the environment ; Build habits ; Rally the herd ; Keep the switch going ; Howe to make a switch ; Overcoming obstacles ; Next steps.
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作者简介

Chip Heath is a Professor of Organizational Behavior in the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University. His research examines why certain ideas - ranging from urban legends to folk medical cures, from Chicken Soup for the Soul stories to business strategy myths - survive and prosper in the social marketplace of ideas. His research has appeared in a variety of academic j...

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精彩摘录

提供给骑象人越多的选项,他就越容易变得筋疲力尽(你是否注意到,跟其他那些种类轻松的活动比较起来,购物是不是让人更加疲惫呢?现在你知道为什么了——这都是选择项太多惹的祸)。正如《选择的悖论》(theParadoxofChoice)的书中所论述的那样,当我们遇到的选择越来越多的时候,“我们就超载了,选择不再是自由,反而让我们精疲力竭,它甚至可以说是在对我们进行压迫”含混不清是进行改变的大敌。因此你必须脚踏实地,不再纠缠于所谓的抱负而是开始行动。简而言之,想要进行改变,你所需要的,是勾勒出那些具备关键性的步骤。

——引自第58页


第三部分让大象动起来1.让他找到感觉在绝大多数进行改变的例子当中,各种因素并非已知,而未来到底是什么样子也是模糊不清的。在这类变革中,成功的案例通常有一个模式:观察——感知——改变。你所呈现的证据使你感觉到了一些东西,这或许是对于问题本身的一种令人烦恼的身世,或者是对于解决方案的一种抱有希望的窥探,或者是你目前习惯的一种清醒的反思。但无论如何,这都是哪些能够在情感层面打动你的东西,同时还是一种能够跟你脑袋里的大象进行交流的东西。我们在组织或者是社会中遇到的绝大多数棘手问题,都是模棱两可并且逐步演变的,它们跟“燃烧的平台”的情况不同,并非需要针对目前情况描绘出一幅黑暗图景,以至于员工们不得不选择跳下火海。去处理这些问题的时候,需要人们放低姿态,执行一个虽然困难,但却充分了解的游戏计划。为了解决更加棘手也更加模棱两可的问题,我们需要敞开心扉,更加具有创造力,而且还要怀有希望。2.降低改变的门槛跟从一段更短但是需要从头开始的路程相比,人们觉得自己更有动力去走完那些虽然更长,但是已经走了一部分的路程。这就是为什么依惯例来说,除非你已经有了一半的资金掌握在手中,否则不要公开宣布进行一次以慈善为目的的募捐运动的原因。(毕竟,谁会愿意成为一次募捐100万美元的筹款运动中捐出第一个100美元的人呢?)前进的感觉是很关键的,因为我们头脑中大象很容易就会变得意志消沉。它很容易就被吓到,脱离以往的轨道,而正是出于这样的原因,它需要回复信心,甚至是在整段旅程刚刚迈出第一步的时候也是如此。有一种名为“5分钟拯救房间”的聪明的自助活动,你需要做的事:买一个厨房计时器,把设定的时间调整为5分钟;接着去你家最脏乱差,且一个永远不能够让客人们看到的房间,随着计时器开始计时,你开始从里面打扫出一条道路来,然后当...

——引自章节:第三部分

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