551: How to Save Massive Time, Energy, and Frustration by Solving Problems Before They Happen with Dan Heath
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 5 March 2020
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Dan Heath discusses how upstream-thinking can help solve problems before they even show up.
You'll Learn:
1) The power of “upstream thinking”
2) How to get to the root of the problem
3) How to avoid the blame game at work
About Dan:
Dan Heath and his brother, Chip, have written four New York Times bestselling books: Made to Stick, Switch, Decisive, and The Power of Moments. Heath is a senior fellow at Duke University’s CASE center, which supports entrepreneurs fighting for social good. He lives in Durham, North Carolina. The Heath brothers’ books have sold more than three million copies worldwide and have been translated into thirty-three languages.
Items Mentioned in the Show
- Book: How Will You Measure Your Life by Clayton Christensen
- Book: Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much by Sendhil Mullainathan
- Study: Anita Tucker
- Personality: Paul Batalden
- Software: Toggl
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast, |
| 0:04.0 | the show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required to flourish at work. |
| 0:10.0 | Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money. |
| 0:14.0 | With your host, Pete McKitis. |
| 0:19.5 | Hello and thanks for joining us here for episode 551 with Dan Heath. |
| 0:24.1 | Dan is going to share how you can solve problems |
| 0:27.6 | before they start to save a whole bundle of time, |
| 0:30.3 | energy, frustration, annoyance, and firefighting. |
| 0:33.2 | Ah! |
| 0:34.6 | What a relief it is. |
| 0:35.8 | So you'll learn, one, the power of upstream thinking. |
| 0:38.2 | Two, how to get to the root of problems. |
| 0:40.6 | And three, how to avoid the blame game at work. |
| 0:43.0 | So if you want to check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to items you've referenced, |
| 0:47.0 | drop on byall summit your job.com slash eep 551 or tap that right in your podcast at players show notes or description. |
| 0:56.0 | Now here's Dan's story. |
| 0:57.0 | Dan Heath and his brother Chip have written four |
| 0:59.0 | New York Times best-selling books made to stick, |
| 1:01.0 | switch, decisive, and the power of moments. |
| 1:04.4 | Heath is a senior fellow at Duke University's Case Center, which supports entrepreneurs fighting |
| 1:09.2 | for social good. |
| 1:10.4 | He lives in Durham, North Carolina, and the Heath Brothers books have sold more than 3 million copies worldwide and have been translated into 33 languages. |
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