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121. Solve Problems Before They Happen with Dan Heath

The Greg McKeown Podcast

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Is Its System's Thinking to Prevent Fires?

When a house catches on fire, it's very clear who owns that problem. But if you ask just a slightly reformulated question, whose job is it to keep your house from catching on fire? Nowyou've got a kind of mysterious question. And so in situations like that, where you can't find a clear owner, often what happens is nothing. Because no one owns it, no progress happens.

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