His new book, The Four Workarounds, draws on examples from social impact organisations who employ four particular workarounds: the piggyback, the loophole, the roundabout, and the next best. The clever case studies enlighten, and business readers will appreciate the suggestions on how to make one’s workplace “workaround friendly” (embrace collaboration and stay flexible). Worse, over the past decade large companies have been trying to convince nonprofits to be more like them. His distillation of their robust, dynamic and creative methods is an original and inspiring read for anyone interested in nontraditional problem-solving approaches. Scrappy organizations operating from the fringes of power tend to have an advantage when it comes to spotting unconventional pairings.

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As I dove deeper into online hacker communities, I also found that hacking isn’t limited to the world of computing. That’s obscene because diarrhea can be treated with medicines that are extremely affordable, over the counter.In their creative approach, they have provided an example for a type of workaround that I’ll refer to as piggybacking. For example, in sub-Saharan Africa, Cola Life literally piggybacked on Coca Cola’s distribution chain to get lifesaving medicine to last mile, rural communities – by packing medication inside crates of Coca Cola bottles.

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Companies can actually stimulate a culture that embraces this flexibility and an adaptive nature that a workaround requires and that this positive deviance also requires. PAULO SAVAGET, author of The Four Workarounds, is associate professor at Oxford University’s Engineering Sciences Department and the Saïd Business School. 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. If you watched On the Basis of Sex, the biographical legal drama about RBG, youIn The Four Workarounds, he uses real world examples to show us smart, efficient ways to problem-solve. The Four Workarounds , by Paulo Savaget Associate Professor of Engineering (Engineering Entrepreneurship) at Saïd Business School, a joint appointment with the Department of Engineering Science. Also, this idea of portraying them as heroes with special skills has been often reproduced by the media, for example, or even by business books, like the myth of the dropout.

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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. Other examples of food fortification include adding iron, folic acid, zinc, and vitamin A to staples such as wheat and ready-to-eat cereals. Once in the king’s chambers, Scheherazade asked if she could bid one last farewell to her beloved sister, who had secretly been instructed to ask Scheherazade to tell her a story. With her indirect resistance, Scheherazade flipped the power equation: By the time she finished her thousandth story and said she had no more to tell, the king had fallen in love and decided to spare the life of the woman who had by that time borne him three children.But my work with nonprofits had taught me that there was a lot that corporations could learn from small organizations that make outsized impacts. To find out more about the workarounds, join the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship on 10 March for a seminar with Paulo, Steve Naudé, Head of Wise Platform, and Professor Marya Besharov.

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I pursued paths that combined my excitement for entrepreneurship with my concerns about social and environmental challenges, such as poverty, inequality, and climate change. So if you’re interested in plunging into unconventional stories, challenging yourself to think differently about decision-making and management strategies, and defying the status quo to address your problems, then please read on.

Savaget shares why unconventional approaches to problem solving—reinterpreting rules, repurposing resources, and changing mindsets—may bring the most positive results. People choose to terminate their pregnancies on board one of the Dutch ships in international waters. Dietary habits are incredibly tough to change, especially on the scale and at the speed necessary to save lives. 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. These two simple tactics will facilitate, indeed expedite frequent review of the most important material later.