''This book helps us live happier, successful, and more fulfilling lives'' Jenn Lim, CEO and cofounder of Delivering Happiness and bestselling author of Beyond Happiness
Real-world problems need real solutions. Often ''perfect'' isn''t an option, and we need something easy, smart, and quick: we need a workaround.
In this groundbreaking book, Oxford University professor and award-winning researcher Paulo Savaget shows how the most valuable lessons about problem-solving can be learned from the scrappiest, poorest groups.
Savaget draws examples from organizations dedicated to social action that have made an art form out of subverting the status quo, proving themselves adept at achieving massive wins with minimal resources. They do this by employing four particular workarounds: the piggyback, the loophole, the roundabout, and the next best. With vivid and fascinating examples from his life and travels, he demonstrates how each one works, and how to
