Summary, Analysis, and Review of Dan Heath's Upstream

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Dan Heath’s Upstream explores how individuals and organizations can shift from a reactive to a preventive problem-solving approach to achieve better personal, business, social, and political outcomes.

What Does this Start Publishing Notes' Summary, Analysis, and Review Include?

Summary of the original book

Easily digestible takeaways distilling the main ideas

Psychological obstacles to upstream thinking and how to get over them

How systems thinking is the key to sustainable preventive interventions

Editorial Review & Analysis

Background on Dan Heath

About the Original Book:

Drawing from the stories of dozens of upstream thinkers who have achieved remarkable success in solving such problems as customer churn and domestic violence, Heath demonstrates how anyone can confront seemingly insoluble problems and design interventions that prevent them from occurring in the first place. Heath, who is a Senior Fellow at Duke University, builds on the latest in psychology and systems thinking to propose, in easily digestible prose, how ordinary people can achieve the change in mindset that creates extraordinary change. Upstream ought to be required reading for parents, teachers, doctors, entrepreneurs, government officials, and problem solvers of all kinds.

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