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

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Often ‘perfect’ isn’t an option, and we need something easy, smart, and quick: we need a workaround. The Social Brain: the Psychology of Successful Group , by Tracey Camilleri and Samantha Rockey , Associate Fellows at Oxford Saïd .

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On this episode, he shares a little about each of these tactics and how we can employ them each day as leaders and creative pros as we discuss the new book The Four Workarounds. They do this by employing four particular workarounds: the piggyback, the loophole, the roundabout, and the next best. As I dove deeper into online hacker communities, I also found that hacking isn’t limited to the world of computing. Wise have worked to knit together these national infrastructures to enable the same seamless, low-cost experience for international payments.Luckily, there was a couple who had been trying to tackle the problem of access to medicine by tapping into the existing flows of Coca-Cola bottles. We build and maintain all our own systems, but we don’t charge for access, sell user information, or run ads. 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. 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.

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Lesser-known is that a common solution to this problem is piggybacking on foods that people eat regularly. Homeowners in India, frustrated with men urinating on their walls, curbed this practice by placing tiles of Hindu gods on their walls; after all, urinators wouldn’t commit such a heresy.

Using a rich library of examples, Paulo Savaget shows how “scrappy” organizations tackle seemingly intractable problems, from illegal logging in Brazil to caste discrimination in India to children diarrhea in sub-Saharan Africa. Decades later, Savaget began to study workarounds to find different ways they can address our most urgent problems. 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. If you do nothing, you will be auto-enrolled in our premium digital monthly subscription plan and retain complete access for 65 € per month. This whole myth of entrepreneurs being heroes who do not have fear, who do not have a safety net, who challenge all the odds to pursue their dream is very inaccurate and leads to undesirable behaviors.