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#386: The Importance of Looking Upstream with Dan Heath

EntreLeadership

Ramsey Network

Business, Management, Entrepreneurship

4.7 • 4.4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2020

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

If your average day at work is consumed with putting out fires and dealing with one emergency after the other, you’re on a very slippery slope. It’s a place New York Times bestselling author Dan Heath likes to call “downstream,” and before you know it, he warns, you’ll be stuck there. Tune in as Dan explains why adopting an upstream mindset—i.e., focusing on preventing problems rather than reacting to them over and over again—is crucial to moving your business forward and uniting your team.   entreleadership.com/podcast Upstream by Dan Heath Scarcity by Eldar Shafir and Sendhil Mullainathan #342: 5 Buckets of Leadership You're Responsible For with Dr. Henry Cloud Switch by Chip Heath and Dan Heath #380: Engaging With the Marketplace with Chris Ruder 25 Things You Can Delegate To A Social Media Strategist from BELAY Critical Thinking Cheatsheet Review this episode for a chance to win a $25 Amazon gift card   As an Amazon Associate EntreLeadership earns from qualifying purchases.   Want expert help with your business question? Call 844-944-1070 and leave a message or send an email to podcast@entreleadership.com. You could be featured on a future podcast episode! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Have you heard about the labor crisis in America right now?

0:03.1

Millions of people are giving up on work and business leaders are feeling it from every

0:07.2

side.

0:08.2

That's where we're hosting a free live stream.

0:11.6

America's labor crisis.

0:13.1

The real reason people are giving up on work Thursday may the fourth.

0:17.5

It's completely free.

0:18.9

I'm teaming up with micro and five best selling authors.

0:22.0

We're going to discuss the problem and what some good solutions are.

0:25.0

If you're a business person, you got to do this.

0:27.4

We'll miss it.

0:28.4

Register now at EntryLeadership.com slash labor crisis.

0:36.4

Have you ever gotten those spots where you start treating your business, your leadership,

0:40.4

your team, maybe even your family and quite frankly your entire life like a game of

0:44.1

whack-a-mole?

0:45.1

Like you hit this one thing and you think you're good and then another thing pops up and

0:48.2

then another thing pops up and then you have to hit two things at once and then you

0:51.6

need five hands because you have to hit five things at once and they keep coming up

0:54.8

and you're going frantic and you're going crazy and you just can't get to all of it.

0:59.2

Have you ever been there?

1:00.8

Whenever you engage in that version of life that's a lot like whack-a-mole, you start to realize

1:05.8

that you're focusing only on symptoms and you never actually get to the source.

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