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The StoryBrand Podcast

#214: Dan Heath—Why You Need to Solve Problems Before They Happen

The StoryBrand Podcast

StoryBrand.com

Business, Marketing

4.72K Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2020

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

We have two options when we're faced with a problem. We can either resolve it and walk away or figure out why it's happening in the first place. It's tempting to just solve problems as they come up, but bestselling author and speaker Dan Heath thinks there's a better way. On today's episode, he's sharing why it's important to get to the root of a problem. If managing conflict at work has ever felt like a game of whack-a-mole, this episode will give you the tools you need to create lasting change instead.

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0:00.0

Before we get started with the podcast, if you don't know, Business Made Simple actually has an online school.

0:06.0

Business Made Simple.com.

0:08.0

It's an online university, and I say that in quotes of course, because it's not accredited,

0:12.2

but we basically wanted to put together the real

0:14.3

courses that you really needed in order to grow and scale your business.

0:19.2

We have courses on how to write your mission statement, of course on clarifying your message, of course on

0:23.1

creating a marketing sales funnel. We just put up a course on proposals, how to

0:27.1

write a really great proposal. We just filmed our course on a communication

0:30.5

strategy and that will go in.

0:33.0

What is your communication strategy when you release information to the world,

0:36.0

even internal information?

0:38.0

I'm about the film Life Plan and productivity.

0:41.0

And then by the end of the year, we're actually filming a sales and customer service

0:46.4

curriculum. It's going to be incredible and it already is incredible. In fact, Dr. J.J. Peterson, who's

0:51.4

sitting here with me, you are actually going to teach one of our courses that is in the university at Vanderbilt University.

0:58.8

Yeah, in their master's program. In their master's program. Is it an MBA or what is it?

1:02.1

No, it's a Masters of Marketing marketing, oh and school of business.

1:04.5

Yeah, I'll be teaching our marketing made simple, essentially how to create a

1:08.5

sales funnel at Vanderbilt.

1:10.0

Yeah, well that's incredible.

1:11.2

And how much money do you save if you do the online version as a poor?

1:17.4

Am I allowed to ask that question? I mean, I'm still like getting in there, so I don't know how much we really

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