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The Quest to Solve Problems Before They Happen
by Dan Heath
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Behavioral Psychology, Best Business Books, and Best Leadership Books.
New York Times bestselling author Dan Heath examines how to prevent problems before they happen, drawing on insights from his innovative behavior research, as well as hundreds of new interviews with unconventional problem solvers.Most of us spend our days handling a deluge of pressing issues. We?re so accustomed to managing emergencies as they stri...
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Behavioral Psychology, Best Business Books, and Best Leadership Books.
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Adam Grant
Organizational psychologist; Wharton professor
“Now that you have a better handle on solving the problems, it’s time to learn how to prevent them from occurring in the first place. The coauthor of my alltime favorite book on change, Switch, has a real gift for finding captivating stories, using them to illustrate convincing evidence, and weaving them into useful models.”
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