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The Solution Revolution

How Business, Government, and Social Enterprises Are Teaming Up to Solve Society's Toughest Problems

by William Eggers
Paul Macmillan
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World hunger. Climate change. Crumbling infrastructure. It's clear that in today's era of fiscal constraints and political gridlock the government alone can no longer tackle these and other towering social problems. What's required is a new, more collaborative and productive economic system. The Solution Revolution brings hope-revealing a new economy where players from across the spectrum of business, government, philanthropy, and social enterprise converge to solve big problems and create public value.By erasing public-private sector boundaries, the solution economy is unlocking trillions of dollars in social benefit and commercial value. Where tough societal problems persist, new problem solvers are crowdfunding, ridesharing, app-developing, or impact-investing to design innovative new solutions for seemingly intractable problems. Providing low-cost health care, fighting poverty, creating renewable energy, and preventing obesity are just a few of the tough challenges that also represent tremendous opportunities for those at the vanguard of this movement.Government cannot handle alone the huge challenges facing our global society-and it shouldn't. We need a different economic paradigm that can flexibly draw on resources, combine efforts, and create value, while improving the lives of citizens. The Solution Revolution shows the way.

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  • Release date

    April 30, 2014

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      • ISBN: 9781622314447
      • File size: 250297 KB
      • Duration: 08:41:27

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      With his documentary vocal style dominating his approach to this important book, narrator Rick Adamson gets the phrasing right and makes everything clear. He's earnestly engaged with the material, but his limited pitch patterns sound repetitious and dampen the listening experience by making the audio sound overly serious and lacking in personality. The authors offer a menu of innovative, edgy approaches to society's most vexing problems. With their thoughtful explanations of solutions from around the world, they show how businesses can collaborate with government and social enterprises to focus on nonfinancial alternative currencies such as health outcomes, environmental sustainability, and community productivity. The partnerships and initiatives they've discovered provide needed direction and hope in the midst of government paralysis and a profit-obsessed business culture. T.W. © AudioFile 2014, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      July 1, 2013
      “Imagine the world if we were able to double, triple, or even quadruple the number of problem solvers, the diversity of solutions, and the scale of social impacts.” This utopian assertion is at the heart of this energetic study of non-governmental solutions from Deloitte executives Eggers and Macmillan. In the past, when the government was responsible for effecting change, there were conflicting interests between departments and agencies and meager resources. But with the “solution revolution,” companies, educational institutions, and individuals are stepping in and providing better results at lower costs, the authors write. “A new economy has emerged at the borderlands where traditional sectors overlap,” the authors explain, based in a market for solutions to societal problems. In lively prose, the authors discuss such innovations as the Google employee shuttles, Recyclebank, and Zipcar. Outside of these big names, highlights of the book include the work of lesser-known game changers: Unilever’s Wheel soap, sold in small quantities at low prices, help the very poor fight diarrhea-related deaths, and a contest proposed by Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business professors to design a $300, simple-to-build house to address housing shortages. These stories along with substantive advice for individuals and governments alike present a persuasive argument that the future of global change rests squarely in the hands of ordinary citizens.

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