pickAn interesting read that can apply to a wide range of situations. It took me much longer to read than it should have because of pandemic brain. It is light and breezy for a non-fiction book.
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Upstream: The Quest to Solve Problems Before They Happen | 
pickAn interesting read that can apply to a wide range of situations. It took me much longer to read than it should have because of pandemic brain. It is light and breezy for a non-fiction book.
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This book is FANATIC. Highly recommend. Heath clearly lays out our responsibility to face uncomfortable possibilities and take them head-on knowing the cost may be painfu initially but compared to the exponentially worse cost in the future the initial cost is worth it.
He clearly shows the importance of not only identifying problems but eliminating the systems that allow them to exist.
#Nonfiction #recommend
Final Lines: "These should be our heroes, too: The people who are unsatisfied with normal. People who clamor for better."
"Be impatient for action but patient for outcomes."
- Maureen Bisognano
"Bostrom's point is that there's no guarantee that we will continue to get lucky in the same way....there are DNA 'printers' that allow companies to produce stretches of DNA quickly & cheaply... imagine if, someday, those DNA printers could be brought into the home...& someone could home-cook a copy of the 1918 Spanish flu. One human could trigger the end for us all." ? #covid19 #coronavirus
"The law is just a set of rules based on inputs from power sources, if you want to change the rules, you've got to change the power inputs so that the outcome will be different."
#Nonfiction #power #change
"The need for heroism is usually evidence of systems failure."
#Nonfiction #business #success
Sacrifice show for success & win at life! Winning is exciting, it just takes time.
"To succeed upstream, leaders must: detect problems early, target leverage points in complex systems, find reliable ways to measure success, pioneer new ways of working together, and embed their successes into systems to give them permanence."
Section 1: The Three Barriers to Upstream Thinking. 1) Problem Blindness, 2) A Lack of Ownership, 3) Tunneling
"When you spend years responding to problems, you can sometimes overlook the fact that you could be preventing them."
#Nonfiction
Moving this #Nonfiction book about problem solving from my #TBR stack to my current reading stack. Reading this for our book club #Elite30
Adding this #Nonfiction book to my #TBR stack about #business #first
