It was discussed in detail, specifically how it's a simple concept that might be difficult to implement in practice, with many examples from different fields to illustrate the main points of the book.
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Now this book with the concept of upstream is brilliant and yet so simple but that's always where the best idea has come from right?
— Episode: 350: Dan Heath | Solving Problems from U...
Episode: 350: Dan Heath | Solving Problems from Upstream
It was discussed in detail, specifically how it's a simple concept that might be difficult to implement in practice, with many examples from different fields to illustrate the main points of the book.
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Now this book with the concept of upstream is brilliant and yet so simple but that's always where the best idea has come from right?
It's like how did no one think of this? Oh right that's kind of the point is it's a simple idea that might be trickier to implement in practice.
It contains essentially the moral of this book which is that again and again in different sectors of the economy in our personal lives in our work we get stuck in this cycle of reacting to things.
We're always dealing with emergencies were responding to fires that break out but we're never getting upstream to deal with the systemic issues that be get these problems that we spend all of our times chasing.
The essence of prevention I want to say first of all that it's not like this is some you know unanswerable question people answer this question all the time and in fact all of us that have ever gotten an oil change on our car we've answered that question right.
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The book, co-authored by Chip and Dan Heath, was mentioned in the context of problem-solving, and how upstream thinking could have prevented the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Dan and Chip Heath they write all these business books, of course, but this upstream problem solving is particularly apropos and important right now in a pandemic when we know from the Dennis Carroll episode which we are to think in February.
Episode: 350: Dan Heath | Solving Problems from Upstream
It was discussed as a brilliant, yet simple concept, and explored through various examples, including the police officer scenario and the hurricane Katrina simulation, as a metaphor for solving issues before they arise.
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Now this book with the concept of upstream is brilliant and yet so simple but that's always where the best idea has come from right?
It's like how did no one think of this? Oh right that's kind of the point is it's a simple idea that might be trickier to implement in practice.
It's really hard to prove that prevention is actually effective and we can get into a little bit more detail on that in a bit but how do we prove what did not happen is kind of the big question about upstream would you call them interventions or problem solving it's really hard to get people on board because you have to prove that that effort is what resulted in something not happening.
we never run out of room upstream and this is kind of subtly brilliant because right now using covid as an example we're stuck trying to figure out how we can rush a vaccine through faster than any vaccine in human history right that could have tons of side effects or other problems with it in the meantime hundreds of thousands of people and that's if we're lucky only hundreds of thousands of people are going to die from this or be severely severely injured for the rest of their lives and we have a very small window for this to not get even more out of control and even then there's no guarantees but upstream you can kind of go back as far as you want
we move mountains to clean up after hurricanes well at least in the first world it's tsunamis and hurricanes but we do virtually nothing to prevent disasters even when we are able to do so
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