Recently read:
Driving Social Change – How to solve the world’s toughest problems (Paul C. Light)
My grade (1 to 5): 3 – informative but not greatly written (mostly 1 notable insight, rest can be flipped through quickly, too many buzzwords)
Key Ideas:
- Fundamentally argues that if we truly want to effect lasting social change, we are not seeing the full picture if we keep idolizing individual social entrepreneurs without recognizing that they only play one role among many others that contribute to what the author calls social “breakthroughs”
- Depending on the problem to be solved, social breakthroughs require one or more among 4 key concepts: (1) new ideas (social entrepreneurship), (2) defense and expansion of past breakthroughs (social safekeeping), (3) research, data and trend analysis (social exploring), (4) demand for change in social networks (social advocacy)
