Dan Heath’s Reset Strategy | How to Change What’s Not Working
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🗓️ 22 January 2025
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Changing our work patterns can feel daunting. We’re held back by the comfort of familiar routines and overwhelmed by the constant demands of urgent tasks and workplace conflicts, leaving us with little energy to explore new approaches. But what if there were a blueprint for getting unstuck? In his new book, Reset: How To Change What’s Not Working, Dan Heath shares a proven framework for driving meaningful change.
Today, Dan and Ryan discuss trusting your instincts in creative decision-making, knowing when to reset versus rebuild, and applying upstream thinking to prevent downstream consequences.
Dan Heath is the #1 New York Times bestselling author/coauthor of six books including Made to Stick, Switch, Upstream, and The Power of Moments. Dan also hosts the award-winning podcast What It’s Like to Be… which explores what it’s like to walk in the shoes of people from different professions.
Reset: How To Change What’s Not Working by Dan Heath is out now! Grab a copy here: https://www.amazon.com/
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