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The Myth of the Garage and Other Minor Surprises by Dan Heath and Chip Heath 1 THE MYTH OF THE GARAGE AND OtHER MINOR SURPRISES by Dan Heath and Chip Heath Copyright © 2011 by Dan Heath and Chip Heath. All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Crown Business, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. www.crownpublishing.com CROWN BUSINESS is a trademark and CROWN is a registered trademark of Random House, Inc. eISBN: 978-0-307-95359-9 TABLE OF CONTENTS Foreword from Dan & Chip Heath 4 The Myth of the Garage 5 The Birth of a Sticky Idea 7 I Love You Now What? 9 The Horror of Mutual Funds: Why False Information Can Be Credible 11 Is Talent Portable? 13 On Handcuffs: Why Customers Will Pay You to Restrain Them 15 From the Annals of Unlikely: ‘Must-See’ Compliance Videos 17 The Curse of Incentives 19 Stigma Abusers 21 Anchor & Twist: How to Explain an Innovation 23 Watch the Game Film 25 The Future Fails Again 27 In Defense of Feelings: Why Your Gut Is More Ethical Than Your Brain 29 Get Back in the Box 31 The Inevitability of $300 Socks 33 The Gripping Statistic 35 Loving the Slog: Why True Grit Matters in the Face of Adversity 37 3 FOREWORD FROM DAN & CHIP HEATH It has become a Christmas tradition in the Heath household to order the “Surprise Bag” from Archie McPhee, a quirky toy store based in Seattle. One of the kids in the family does the honors of opening the bag, which arrives as a brown grocery sack stapled at the top. You don’t know what will be inside; you have to take your chances. The goodies range from the practical (Corn Dog Lip Balm) to the entertaining (Emergency Yodel Button) to the thought-provoking (Sigmund Freud Action Figure). This collection is, roughly speaking, our surprise bag. We wrote a column for Fast Company magazine for four years, from 2007 to 2011, and we’ve selected our favorites for The Myth of the Garage. Some are extremely opinionated; we’ll insist that you never buy another mutual fund (The Horror of Mutual Funds) and we’ll call out some of the sleaziest marketers of modern times by name (Stigma Abusers). In other pieces, we’ll try to shed some light on certain mysteries in the business world; for instance, why did Second Life fail to take over the world, as seemed inevitable five years ago? (The Future Fails Again) Or, why will customers often pay to have some of their choices revoked? (On Handcuffs) If you’re familiar with our past work, you’ll know that it has a pragmatic bent—Made to Stick explained how to communicate with impact, and Switch discussed some principles for making change easier. (Some brothers fix up cars; we write “how-to” books.) You’ll find practical pieces here as well: Some thoughts on sparking creativity (Get Back in the Box) and some advice on explaining innovations (Anchor & Twist). We hope you enjoy the collection—and also the price point, which is a minor milestone. (This is the first free e-book published by Crown Books.) The first surprise in the collection is the title piece, “The Myth of the Garage,” in which we’ll argue that Apple did not, in fact, start in a garage. Read on! - Dan & Chip, November 2011 [email protected] 4 THE MYTH OF THE GARAGE First published March 1, 2007 ales of groundbreaking innovation sound a lot alike. Like action-adventure movies, they have a predictable structure. You know how Die Hard 4 is going to end and you know how YouTube T began: Some ordinary guys, without money or power, triumphed via a brilliant insight and scrappy groundwork, just like Hewlett and Packard, who started in a garage. Or Jobs and Woz, who founded Apple in a (different) garage. Or Michael Dell, who lived the same tale but upgraded to a dorm room. Rebels, all of them, who triumphed over Big Business. But what if those stories mislead us about what it takes to generate great ideas? Two researchers from the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley, Pino Audia and Chris Rider, have debunked the Myth of the Garage in a recent paper. The garage, they say, “evokes the image of the lone individual who relies primarily on his or her extraordinary efforts and talent” to triumph. The reality is that successful founders are usually “organizational products.” A separate study of VC-backed companies found that 91% were related to the founders’ prior job experience. Audia and Rider say entrepreneurial triumphs aren’t due to lonely, iconoclastic work—they’re “eminently social.” Wait a minute: Entrepreneurs aren’t rebels, then, so much as recently departed organization men and women. Consider two of the founders of YouTube, Steve Chen and Chad Hurley. Both cut their teeth at PayPal; in fact, Hurley was one of PayPal’s first employees and even designed its logo. (He is also the son-in-law of James Clark, who founded Netscape and Silicon Graphics.) Top-tier venture-capital firms were calling them, offering money, counsel, and connections, within months of launch. You have to admit, this tale isn’t quite as uplifting as the more familiar YouTube origin story, in which twentysomething buddies create a cool site to swap videos with friends and then it goes gangbusters. 5 THE MYTH OF THE GARAGE As for Jobs and Wozniak: yes, there was a garage, but less discussed is Jobs’s background at Atari (he was employee #40) and HP (“What I learned there was the blueprint we used for Apple,” he told a journalist in 2003). Meanwhile, Wozniak was an engineer at HP, and he gave it the first shot at his microcomputer idea. (Bad call, HP.) In other words, companies aren’t born in garages. Companies are born in companies. This reality shouldn’t diminish these monumental achievements. Yet it feels like it does, because we crave the excitement of these creation myths. Your startup “emerged from a systematic discussion of market opportunities, conducted at a networking function at the Marriott”? Yawn. Give us the garage. In fact, the Apple story would be even more satisfying if Jobs and Wozniak had actually built the garage first, by hand, out of toothpicks scavenged from local restaurants. Because we eat these stories up, ideas tend to evolve to suit our fancies. Christopher Columbus, we all know, wanted to prove he could reach India by sailing west. But no one believed his absurd theory that the earth was round; his own sailors were terrified their ships would fall off the edge. His crew almost mutinied! But that version of Columbus is a myth, according to historical sociologist James Loewen. In Columbus’s day, most people knew that the world was round. The evidence was there for them to see: People noticed that, when another ship receded into the horizon, its hull disappeared first, and then the mast later, which suggested that there was some kind of curvature in play. Furthermore, Columbus’s three ships enjoyed “lovely sailing,” with no record of mutinous talk. And he actually set sail to find gold, not to strike a blow for geography. Columbus arguably discovered the New World. Kind of a big deal. But as with garage entrepreneurs, we want more. We like Columbus’s story even more when, en route, he has to fight off a feisty crew. As stories are told and retold, they evolve. They come to emphasize individuals, not organizations; to celebrate a flash of insight over stepwise improvements; and to exaggerate obstacles while downplaying institutional support. In years to come, expect YouTube’s triumphant story to grow even grander than it is today. But if you’re starting a company or launching a product, don’t get lured into scouting out a garage. Learn from your predecessors: First, get a job. 6 THE BIRTH OF A STICKY IDEA First published April 1, 2010 f you were on a New York subway last fall, you might have noticed a provocative ad that showed soda being poured from a plastic bottle into a glass tumbler. By the time the soda hit Ithe tumbler, it had transformed into fat—globby, disgusting, yellow-orange human fat, which pooled in the bottom of the glass and burped over the brim. The headline: “ARE YOU POURING ON THE POUNDS?” You would have regretted encountering this ad with a mouthful of cheese Danish. The ad struck a chord. New Yorkers couldn’t stop talking about it, and it was everywhere in the media. It was, in fact, the first punch landed in what may be a 10-round fight against sugary soda. We are witnessing the birth of a sticky idea: Soda makes you fat. So three questions: Why did the ad campaign stick? Is it fair? And what would you do next if you were a soda executive? It’s no surprise why the ad stuck: It packed an emotional punch. It abandoned the typical statistico- caloric factoids about soda and, instead, simply made you want to vomit. That’s what sticky ideas do—they make people feel something. Change comes from feeling, not facts. Not surprisingly, the soda companies punched back. American Beverage Association PR representative Kevin Keane said of the ad, “It’s absurd and over-the-top and unfortunately is going to undermine efforts to educate about a serious and complex issue like obesity.” Is Keane right? Are soda companies getting blamed unfairly? The soda executives say, look, people eat and drink lots of stuff.
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