350: Dan Heath | Solving Problems from Upstream


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May 11 2020 56 mins   10

Dan Heath is a Senior Fellow at Duke University's CASE center, which supports entrepreneurs who are fighting for social good. He is the co-author of four New York Times bestsellers, and his latest book is Upstream: The Quest to Solve Problems Before They Happen.


What We Discuss with Dan Heath:



  • How many problems in our lives and in society are we tolerating simply because we’ve forgotten that we can fix them?

  • Why are we more often stuck in a cycle of response downstream of problems rather than upstream where we might prevent them from happening in the first place?

  • What lessons can we learn about upstream versus downstream thinking by examining our current pandemic crisis?

  • What the federal response to Hurricane Katrina tells us about an ounce of prevention being worth a pound of cure.

  • Upstream versus downstream thinking regarding the healthcare debate in the US.

  • And much more...


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