An extraordinary and iconoclastic study, The Four Workarounds…should be brought to the attention of every corporate executive, business manager, and entrepreneur with an interest in business decision making and problem solving. As well as telling some entertaining tales of cunning loophole-exploitation and next-best ingenuity, the book also touches on the philosophical. Or when many LGBTQI+ couples marry in foreign countries and later validate their marriage certificates in their home countries, where same-sex marriage is illegal. You may also opt to downgrade to Standard Digital, a robust journalistic offering that fulfils many user’s needs. These questions helped me find some reoccurring themes: the workaround masterminds tend to mistrust authorities, thrive on urgency and immediacy, think unconventionally, and act resourcefully.

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

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. Unfortunately, the conversation was one-sided, and I didn’t want to torture my data into an unreliable confession. In many situations, “a creative, flexible, imperfection-loving, problem-solving approach” may be the best answer. His distillation of their robust, dynamic and creative methods is an original and inspiring read for anyone interested in nontraditional problem-solving approaches.By the 1930s, goiter caused by iodine deficiency had been virtually eliminated from the country’s healthcare concerns. After having that wife executed, the king decided to marry a new virgin every day and have her beheaded in the morning, before she had the chance to dishonor him. Paulo Savaget is an associate professor in the Department of Engineering Science and Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford. As it turns out, valuable lessons about problem-solving can be learned from the scrappiest groups that have made an art form out of subverting the status quo and achieving massive wins with minimal resources.

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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.Workarounds can address all sorts of problems, ranging from global responses to some of the world’s toughest challenges, such as global pandemics, gender inequality, poverty, or everyday inconveniences.

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The LOOPHOLE relies on selectively applying or reinterpreting the rules that traditionally define a situation.

All of my stories’ protagonists used at least one of four workaround methods, which I have termed piggyback, loophole, roundabout, and next best. My book covers policymakers, individuals, nonprofits—organizations that are now very big, like Airbnb. Web icon An illustration of a computer application window Wayback Machine Texts icon An illustration of an open book. 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. 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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PAULO SAVAGET, author of The Four Workarounds, is associate professor at Oxford University’s Engineering Sciences Department and the Saïd Business School. If you’d like to retain your premium access and save 20%, you can opt to pay annually at the end of the trial.

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