Ebook: Getting to Maybe: How the World Is Changed
Author: Frances R. Westley, Brenda Zimmerman, Michael Patton
- Genre: Other Social Sciences // Politics
- Year: 2009
- Publisher: Vintage Canada
- Edition: Kindle Edition
- Language: English
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A practical, inspirational, revolutionary guide to social innovation Many of us have a deep desire to make the world around us a better place. But often our good intentions are undermined by the fear that we are so insignificant in the big scheme of things that nothing we can do will actually help feed the world's hungry, fix the damage of a Hurricane Katrina or even get a healthy lunch program up and running in the local school. We tend to think that great social change is the province of heroes -- an intimidating view of reality that keeps ordinary people on the couch. But extraordinary leaders such as Gandhi and even unlikely social activists such as Bob Geldof most often see themselves as harnessing the forces around them, rather than singlehandedly setting those forces in motion. The trick in any great social project -- from the global fight against AIDS to working to eradicate poverty in a single Canadian city -- is to stop looking at the discrete elements and...
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