Undercurrents: Channeling Outrage to Spark Practical Activism - Hardcover

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STEVE DAVIS is a lecturer at Stanford Graduate School of Business and was former CEO of PATH, a global health innovation non-profit. With degrees from Princeton University, the University of Washington, and Columbia Law School, he formerly served as CEO of Corbis, a digital media pioneer, and as the director of social innovation at McKinsey & Co., a global consultancy. He advises many organizations, and frequently speaks and writes, about the intersection of innovation, technology, and social impact. He lives with his family in Seattle, Washington.

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In Undercurrents: Channeling Outrage to Spark Practical Activism, accomplished business executive, educator, activist, and author Steve Davis teaches readers how to harness broad social trends to advance larger social goals. Davis demonstrates how strong emotions like outrage and anger can be channeled into a nuts-and-bolts approach to improving our world. Davis particular focus is on trendlines that offer reasons for optimism amidst dismal daily headlines, and he describes the ways any of us can become activists and turn our outrage into action.

Davis brings readers with him into corporate boardrooms across the globe, entrepreneurial businesses in the poorest neighborhoods of Mumbai, Seattle and Hanoi, the stages of Davos, TED and the UN, tech startups in Zambia, Silicon Valley and Myanmar, and health clinics in Kenya, China and Montana to show how broad social change happens. He identifies five social and economic undercurrents that anyone can leverage to fuel change: shifting economies creating a larger middle class than the world has ever seen; increasing roles for community voices on the world stage; growing importance of equity in social change; accelerating impacts of digital technologies; and increasing attention to the power in bringing innovation to scale.

With a decidedly pragmatic approach to social change, Davis shares his journey from his teenage summer job irrigating Montana hayfields to a seasoned practical activist working across the globe. With real life examples of people working on the front line, and placing a special emphasis on the role of business in social change, Davis describes how leaders and concerned citizens from all stripes can contribute to transforming our world.

Perfect for those who wish to transform their justified outrage about the world's biggest problems into something practical, useful and transformational, Undercurrents: Channeling Outrage to Spark Practical Activism belongs on the bookshelves of anyone who aims to be part of the solutions to the challenges facing our planet.