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

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But there’s an organization that inspired me to look into different ways of working around, an organization that I worked with very closely in Zambia. 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.

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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.Savaget, a professor at Oxford University’s Engineering Sciences Department, debuts with a smart guide to finding creative solutions for a variety of difficulties. With some creativity and close attention to what rules do (and don’t) say we can benefit from their inadequacies to circumvent or otherwise avoid their purpose. They will challenge how you think about problem-solving and show how workarounds can help you with the obstacles you repeatedly bump into. 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. I realized that my original premise was wrong; oftentimes organizations the business world tends to think of as “scrappy” were essentially hacking their own problems—even though they didn’t use this term.

The Four Workarounds: Strategies from the World’s Scrappiest The Four Workarounds: Strategies from the World’s Scrappiest

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