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Trailer: On Obsessing Over Problems, Predicting the Future, and Why Healthcare Should be a Product (Not a Service)
Mar 3, 2023
Adrian Aoun, founder of Forward and former advisor to the White House, talks about being problem obsessed and why healthcare should be a product. He also shares insights on predicting the future from first principles.
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- Being problem-obsessed, rather than solutions-obsessed, is a valuable approach that all companies can benefit from.
- Predicting the future from first principles provides a powerful way to navigate uncertainty and make informed decisions, by having a perspective on the likely direction of things and anticipating the extremes.
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Being Problem-Obsessed: A Key Approach in Forward's Culture
Adrian Oun, the founder of Forward, has built a problem-obsessed culture at the company. By focusing on the problem of a broken healthcare system and aiming to turn it into a product, Forward aims to decrease the rising cost of healthcare and make it accessible to over a billion people globally. This principle of being problem-obsessed, rather than solutions-obsessed, is a valuable approach that all companies can benefit from.
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