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#1282207 BCE · Xiang YuMilitary commandXiang Yu sank his own boats and smashed his cooking pots before an outnumbered battle问题: Xiang Yu's relief force was outnumbered, and allied armies camped nearby refused to fightXiang Yu sank his own boats and smashed his army's cooking pots before an outnumbered battle, leaving every soldier only one path to survival: winning.With no retreat, his army broke the siege of Julu, routing Qin forces…看全文 →#12691782 · James Watt (Boulton & Watt)Steam engines / prime movers瓦特用马力——买家自己的单位——来给新引擎定价,卖给养马的人问题: 养马的买家没法把一台陌生的引擎,跟自家天天喂着的马作比较——没有共同的单位,买卖就谈不下去瓦特把自己的引擎按马力来标价——他发明了「马力」,好让一台陌生的机器用买家熟悉的现有之物来读懂,于是这笔比较就自己说服了自己。马力至今仍是引擎的标准标定单位——一个发明出来用来跟马抢生意的单位,如今却在给汽车、涡轮机和喷气发动机命名。看全文 →#12841834 · Kingdom of Prussia (Zollverein)Trade policy / statecraftPrussia paid neighbors to join its tariff union, making holdouts costlier than joining问题: Dozens of German states taxed goods at every border, strangling trade, and Prussia wanted unity without warRather than force German unification by war, Prussia built a tariff union that paid states to join, making every new member pull in the next.By 1834 most German states outside Austria had joined the Zollverein, unifying Germany's market decades…看全文 →#12681942 · British Army (War Office)Military officer selectionThe British Army stopped picking officers by interview and gave them a leaderless team问题: Officers picked by a short interview board kept failing training or breaking down under real commandBritain stopped interviewing officer candidates and instead gave them a real task with no leader, then watched who actually organized the group.From 1943-45 the Officer Cadet failure rate fell to 8 percent; a follow-up found 76 percent of WOSB officers…看全文 →#12661959 · Volvo (Nils Bohlin)Automotive safetyVolvo invented the modern seatbelt and gave the patent to every competitor for free问题: Cars had no reliable way to keep occupants seated in a crash; lap belts alone let people fold in halfVolvo invented the three-point seatbelt in 1959 and gave the design away free. It is credited with saving over a million lives.The three-point belt Volvo gave away free in 1959 is now standard in every car worldwide and is credited with…看全文 →#12801959 · Haloid Xerox (Xerox Corporation)Office equipment / copiersXerox gave up on selling a $29,500 copier and started charging four cents a copy instead问题: The 914 copier worked, but its $29,500 price tag made it unsellable to the offices that needed it mostXerox gave up selling the copier and leased it near cost, billing four cents a copy — the meter became the business.Xerox's revenue grew from $32 million in 1959 to over $1 billion by 1970, driven almost entirely by the…看全文 →#12771977 · World Series Cricket (Kerry Packer)Professional sports / broadcast mediaPacker couldn't buy cricket's TV rights, so he bought cricket's players instead问题: The board that controlled cricket's broadcast rights refused Packer's money, so he could not buy his way into the sportPacker couldn't buy cricket's TV rights, so he bought its players — the asset the board never owned. A rival league with the stars forced it back to the table.World Series Cricket ran two seasons before a 1979 settlement gave Packer's network the broadcast rights it…看全文 →#12811979 · Apple Computer (Steve Jobs)ComputingApple couldn't buy into Xerox's lab, so it sold Xerox's venture arm a slice of Apple问题: Xerox PARC's interface research was exactly what Apple needed to see, but Xerox had no reason to let it inApple couldn't earn access to Xerox PARC, so it sold Xerox's venture fund pre-IPO stock instead — equity was the price, lab access came with it.Xerox's $1 million stake was worth several times that at Apple's 1980 IPO, while the PARC visit shaped the…看全文 →#12671980 · Walmart (Sam Walton)Retail / discount storesWalmart routed goods from inbound trucks to outbound trucks so nothing sat in a warehouse问题: Rural discount stores needed frequent restocking but couldn't afford the warehouse space and carrying costs it requiredWarehousing meant storing the same box twice. Walmart matched inbound supplier trucks to outbound store trucks on one dock so goods never stopped moving.By the late 1980s Walmart's distribution costs ran 1.7% of sales, versus 3.5% at Kmart and 5% at Sears.看全文 →#12781989 · World Wrestling Federation (Vince McMahon)Professional wrestling / entertainmentWWF admitted wrestling was scripted to walk out of the tax bracket labeled 'sport'问题: New Jersey taxed athletic events at 3% and required medical exams, aimed at a sport wrestling pretended to beThe tax attached to 'sport,' not wrestling. Admitting matches were staged changed nothing on screen — it exited a tax bracket the WWF chose to stay in.New Jersey passed the bill, exempting the WWF from the athletic tax and medical rules by reclassifying its…看全文 →#12711997 · Weight WatchersConsumer health / weight lossWeight Watchers replaced calorie math with a single number that did the math for you问题: Counting calories required dieters to look up and add numbers all day, and most quit the arithmetic within weeksCalorie counting failed because dieters had to do math all day. Weight Watchers pre-computed the math into one number and let people just add it up.Points helped drive Weight Watchers to roughly $1.4 billion in revenue and put point counts on restaurant…看全文 →#12722006 · West Japan Railway CompanyRail transport / public healthA Japanese railway cut platform suicides by changing the light's color, not the mind问题: Barriers and staff patrols couldn't stop platform suicides fast or cheaply enough across thousands of stationsScreen doors were too costly for most platforms. A cheap blue light was installed instead, and suicides at treated stations fell by roughly three-quarters.A peer-reviewed study of 71 stations found blue lights associated with a 74 to 84 percent drop in suicides at…看全文 →#12762007 · Woodland Park High School (Jonathan Bergmann & Aaron Sams)Secondary educationTwo teachers swapped lecture and homework, sending lecture home, keeping practice in class问题: Students who missed class had no way to catch up on lectures, and struggling students got no help on homeworkChemistry teachers recorded lectures for home viewing, then used class time for homework instead — swapping which half of the day needed a teacher present.Bergmann and Sams saw deeper engagement and more help for strugglers…看全文 →#12702008 · Waze (Ehud Shabtai, Uri Levine, Amir Shinar)Navigation / mobile softwareWaze couldn't afford a licensed map, so it had drivers draw one just by driving to work问题: A startup couldn't afford to license or survey the accurate, constantly updated road and traffic data drivers neededWaze couldn't afford to survey roads, so it let drivers draw the map as a byproduct of trips they took anyway.By 2021 Waze had over 50,000 volunteer map editors making 18 million monthly edits across more than 185…看全文 →#12742017 · WildAid / Government of ChinaConservation / public policyA conservation group cut elephant poaching in Africa by running ad campaigns in China问题: Anti-poaching patrols in Africa were losing ground against an ivory trade driven by consumer demand in ChinaAnti-poaching patrols in Africa couldn't outpace ivory demand in China. WildAid ran ads there instead, and ivory prices fell 65 percent after China's ban.After China's 2017 sales ban, raw ivory prices fell about 65 percent from their 2014 peak and seizures…看全文 →#12732024 · Whisper (Procter & Gamble India), with Leo BurnettConsumer health / feminine careWhisper 发现女孩 8 岁就来月经、而非 13 岁——于是把经期教育重新对准这个年龄问题: 印度女孩 8 岁初潮,教育却瞄准青少年——女孩在毫无准备中迎来第一次经期,继而辍学。基准就是错的地图:女孩 8 岁流血,项目却假设 13-16 岁。Whisper 重新测量初潮年龄,重建经期教育——而不是对着污名使劲。据本案例,「Keep Girls in School」已教育超过一亿名女孩、发放免费卫生巾,每年覆盖超过六万所学校。看全文 →#12792024 · WWF-Korea with Cheil Worldwide and travel-booking app YanoljaConservation / travel hospitality / advertising把濒危动物的栖息地本身挂上订房软件,做成可预订的「房型」,订房的动作就是捐款问题: 韩国年轻人会划走他们不信任的环保请托;机构需要的,是把捐款做进他们本就在做的动作里把要保护的栖息地本身挂上线,让订房动作当成捐款,而非开口劝人捐在 2025 年戛纳创意策略类夺得银狮,这是独立评委的裁决。触达数字则来自活动自己的披露。看全文 →#12832024 · Xianyu, Alibaba's idle/secondhand marketplace (campaign by Tian Yu Kong / 天与空)Secondhand e-commerce / consumer internet闲鱼把 5,000 条烤面包端给求职毕业生,面包上印着「面包会有的」问题: 闲鱼要上「副业」板块,但求职的毕业生只把它当成卖二手货的地方——拍多少支广告片也改不了这一点别把宽慰拍成广告片。把话烙进一条真面包,在疑虑正浓的那一刻递进焦虑人群手里——广告就是安慰本身,被吃掉,而不是被无视。发出去 5,000 条面包;报道扩散到高校,竞品品牌来谈联合营销。触达数据是品牌自述。看全文 →#12852026 · Snap Send SolveCivic technology / citizen reportingA bin-chicken villain who campaigns for litter recruits the very people who clean it up问题: Citizens rarely act on 'report the mess': thankless effort with no story, and hero 'clean your city' ads move no oneStop telling people to report the mess; build a villain who argues for keeping it dirty, and his campaign becomes yours.No independent outcome; the CEO frames the villain as losing — last year Sydneysiders reported 39,218…看全文 →#12752026 · Wisła Kraków (with VML Poland)Professional football / fan engagementWisła Kraków paid its 'bad-luck' fans so superstition sold tickets instead of killing them问题: Fans convinced their presence is bad luck stop coming; loyalty rewards go to the most valuable, never the superstitiousIt computed each fan's 'luck' and paid the unluckiest a discount, so the superstition that suppressed ticket sales became the reason they soldSix Lions incl. a Creative-Commerce Grand Prix — the first for a Polish club — plus a white-label offer…看全文 →

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