While solutions may be context-specific at the bottom of the pyramid, the social innovation processes used to get to answers can be shared and scaled across geographies.
Aleem WaljiSeptember 10, 2014
Business is the only force on the planet large enough and pervasive enough to change our broken global systems, and—together—citizen engineers and social entrepreneurs can act as the lever to create clean water, clean air, rich soil, biodiversity and happiness as a natural by-product of everyday work.
Ryan MartensSeptember 5, 2014
If we continue treating complex problems as complicated, we will continue to prescribe remedies with little regard for context and variation—the World Bank’s Innovation Labs director explains why.
Aleem WaljiSeptember 4, 2014
Although luck clearly does happen, I disagree that you should wait for it. In your career, you will have opportunities to take your circumstances and turn them into something that really works for you. Here's how.
Jane MillerAugust 27, 2014
A common belief is that it is only the young who can innovate. But we may be better off motivating and empowering older workers. They are the ones who are best equipped to solve the big problems.
Vivek WadhwaAugust 21, 2014
The policy of funding many projects in the hope that the odd one shines through belongs to an earlier era. We know enough about what works and what doesn’t to be far more targeted.
Ken BanksAugust 18, 2014
Agile and Holacracy are so superior to our traditional methodologies for running businesses and communities and for creating anything new, they should be adopted everywhere immediately.
Cheryl HellerAugust 14, 2014
The combination of cheap capital and expensive labor has created a powerful economic dynamic driving massive innovation across virtually every industry sector.
Brad FeldAugust 8, 2014
What would it take to identify promising innovations faster, more often, and with the full might of public and private partners? That is the challenge before us.
Aleem WaljiAugust 7, 2014
What began as the study of how individuals make decisions is revealing that we humans are not actually the freethinking individuals we believe ourselves to be.
Cheryl HellerAugust 6, 2014
Experts are the greatest inhibitors of innovation—the ones who shouldn’t be listened to. Peter Diamandis says it best: “An expert is someone who can tell you exactly how it can’t be done.”
Vivek WadhwaAugust 4, 2014
We constantly hear that ideas are cheap—that it’s all about execution. That's true, to an extent. But you're still much better off executing on good ideas.
Ken BanksJuly 31, 2014
Imagine that you run a company that sells bottled water. You spend lots of money,…
David BornsteinJuly 30, 2014
"There has never been a better time in the whole history of the world to invent something. There has never been a better time with more opportunities, more openings, lower barriers, higher benefit/risk ratios, better returns, greater upside, than now."
John BradleyJuly 29, 2014
We social innovators worship the power of stories. And when we tell them, we tend to sound as if we’re the first ones ever to try to make the world a better place.
Cheryl HellerJuly 21, 2014
Confronting the hardest problems on the planet requires humility to admit that we don’t know many answers when we start; sometimes, we don’t even know the right problem to work on. And if you start with the wrong problem, you’ll certainly propose the wrong solution.
Aleem WaljiJuly 18, 2014
If we’re serious about breaking down silos, we could start by holding fewer sector-specific events and running more on issues and challenges—and other common themes running through the ‘for good’ sector.
Ken BanksJuly 16, 2014