The following is a conversation between Paulo Savaget, author of The Four Workarounds: Strategies from the World's Scrappiest Organizations for Tackling Complex Problems, and Denver Frederick, the Host of The Business of Giving.
For ages, global corporations have been lecturing small organizations and not-for-profits on how to get things done. As it turns out, it may have been better if it was the other way around. Many small organizations, such as those dedicated to social action, have made an art form out of subverting the status quo and prove themselves adept at achieving massive wins with minimal resources.
This phenomenon is captured in a wonderful new book titled, The Four Workarounds: Strategies from the World's Scrappiest Organizations for Tackling Complex Problems, and here to discuss it with us is its author, an associate professor at the Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford, Dr. Paulo Savaget.