The document outlines key principles for creating ideas that stick, including keeping messages simple yet profound, unexpected yet interesting, concrete yet believable. It emphasizes using stories, analogies, visuals, and credibility to help people understand, remember, care about, and act upon new ideas.
Sales & Marketing Alignment: How to Synergize for Success
Commander's core message in simple, profound sound bites
1. Commander's intent
Find the core Don't bury the lead
Prioritize
Made to Stick:
Why Some Ideas Survive Simple = core + compact
and Others Die
Chip Heath & Dan Heath
Simple Sound bites that are profound
2007
Proverbs
Visual (Palm Pilot wood block)
Share the core
Tap into existing schemas (pomelo)
Create a high concept pitch ("Die Hard on a bus")
Use a generative analogy (Disney's "cast members")
Get attention: surprise
Unexpected
Hold attention: interest
Help people understand and remember
Concrete
Help people coordinate
Help people believe
Authority
SUCCESs
External credibility
checklist Anti-authority
Credible Convincing details
Accessible statistics
Internal credibility
"The Sinatra Test" (If I can make it here...)
Testable credentials
Make people care
Use the power of association
Emotional
Appeal to self-interest (and not just base self-interest)
Appeal to identity
Get people to act
Stories Stories as simulation (tell people how to act)
Stories as inspiration (give people energy to act)