The Four Workarounds: How the World's Scrappiest Organizations Tackle Complex Problems

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Professor De Neve, also a co-founder of the not-for-profit World Wellbeing Movement, said: ‘The question of human happiness is one that has been explored by many, over very many years. They will challenge how you think about problem-solving and show how workarounds can help you with the obstacles you repeatedly bump into. The secret of hackers is that they weave through uncharted territory and, instead of confronting the bottlenecks that lie in their way, they work around them. clever case studies enlighten, and business readers will appreciate the suggestions on how to make one's workplace "workaround friendly. This myth of the hero entrepreneur, who is visionary and who knows where we are going and is leading everyone to this, is not only inaccurate, but it’s undesirable as well on so many levels.

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We understand that not everyone can donate right now, but if you can afford to contribute, we promise it will be put to good use. If you’d like to retain your premium access and save 20%, you can opt to pay annually at the end of the trial. From working around their obstacles, they addressed critical issues and were sometimes able to leave a powerful legacy, especially when it came to issues that, despite best efforts, seemed intractable. The Four Workarounds shows how seemingly intractable problems were addressed using unconventional tactics, and how these tactics can transform the ways we do business and approach the challenges we encounter in our daily lives. In these situations, when we feel things are spiraling out of control, and we can go in only one direction, a roundabout workaround works as a sort of stopgap.

Tracey and Samantha wrote their book for those leaders who are curious about how to lead sustainable high performing, innovative and impactful groups of people. Similarly, though less literally, Wise, a global money movement and management company, is doubly employing the piggyback workaround: they have piggybacked on existing domestic banking infrastructures that allow for fast, easy, and low-cost transfers between bank accounts in the same country. The school allowed them to build on their networks, build their knowledge and skills, provided a safe environment for them to test early-stage ideas. Associate Professors Tracey and Samantha wrote their book for those leaders who are curious about how to lead sustainable high performing, innovative and impactful groups of people.

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The loophole workaround either capitalizes on ambiguity or uses an unconventional set of rules when they are not the most obviously applicable.Professor Paulo Savaget's primary fields of expertise are entrepreneurship, sustainable development, systems change, and innovation management. Case studies show the workarounds in action: Savaget tells how a British couple in Zambia distributed hard-to-come-by diarrhea medicine by having it placed in cases of Coca-Cola, “piggybacking” off the soft drink’s supply chain network, which reached remote areas where medical resources were scarce. Like Scheherazade, you too can stack workaround on top of workaround, night after night, imperceptibly but definitively changing the course of what at first appears inevitable. The single greatest value of the material in this book will probably be derived from Savaget’s explanation of WHAT each workaround requires and then HOW to achieve success with it.

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Savaget shows how some of the world’s most influential and admired organizations have used and benefited from these scrappy tactics. She used her captivating storytelling method to work around the inescapable authority of the king on that night and repeated the same workaround for 1,001 nights, thus successfully delaying her beheading one day at a time. Albert Einstein once suggested that problems cannot be solved by the same way(s) of thinking that caused them. In recent years, most (if not all) organizations have faced uniquely disruptive challenges that have caused the major crises to which this book’s subtitle refers. Women on Waves, a feminist pro-choice group, for example, offers legal and safe abortion services to people living in countries where abortion is illegal.

These two simple tactics will facilitate, indeed expedite frequent review of the most important material later. Thinking like a hacker: Inspired by how computer hackers work around complex obstacles, Savaget argues that anyone can use workarounds to hack all kinds of systems: The workaround is a creative, flexible, imperfection-loving, problem-solving approach. Most of us have heard about the tricks the richest one percent in the world use to avoid taxes, such as hiding fortunes in tax havens like the Cayman Islands, a country that houses more offshore companies than people. I wanted to make sure that this knowledge could be used by many different organizations and individuals.