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In Making the Map we learn how to compensate for our blind spots by uncovering unproductive situations.
Take Jill Vialet, the founder of Playworks, who was the source of my charter school's renewal by helping me to make a map of its underperforming situations, turning the school's playground from a place full of conflict to a place of joy. |
In Minding the Gaps we identify the weak links in an unproductive system.
Take Andrea and Barry Coleman, the founders of Riders for Health, and how they focused on the physical gaps and the weak links in Somalia's transportation system -- its unforgiving dirt roadways as the source of its health care crisis. |
In Building the App we create a platform to leverage undervalued resources and release pent-up energy.
Take Muhammad Yunus the Bangladeshi economics professor, the founder of Grameen Bank and a Nobel Peace Prize winner, who started out by providing low interest loans to poor women basketweavers and holding them accountable through the power of peer groups. |