The Toolbox: Strategies for Crafting Social Impact - Hardcover

Harold, Jacob

 
9781119863335: The Toolbox: Strategies for Crafting Social Impact
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1119863333 ISBN 13: 9781119863335
Verlag: Wiley, 2022

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Transform your corner of the world with strategies from a social change visionary

In The Toolbox: Strategies for Crafting Social Impact, celebrated nonprofit executive Jacob Harold delivers an expert guide to doing good in the 21st century. In the book, you'll explore nine tools that have driven world-shaking social movements and billion-dollar businesses―tools that can work just as well for a farmers market or fire department or small business.

The author describes each of the tools―including storytelling, mathematical modeling, and design thinking―in a stand-alone chapter, intertwining each with a consistent narrative and full-color visual structure. Readers will also find:

  • A consistent focus and emphasis on the work of social good and how it can be applied in any business, government agency, or nonprofit organization
  • Dozens of poems, photos, equations, diagrams, and stories to illustrate and enrich of the core ideas of the book.
  • A fulsome, three-chapter introduction offering an a crash course in the basics of social impact strategy in the 21st century
  • A comprehensive strategic playbook for contributing to the shared work of building a better world

An essential blueprint for anyone interested in improving the world around them, The Toolbox: Strategies for Crafting Social Impact is an incisive strategic guide that will prove to be indispensable for everyone who seeks to collaboratively build something better.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

From farm to monastery, jail to boardroom, Jacob Harold's life has been a search for ways to make a better world. He served as CEO of GuideStar, cofounder of Candid, and as a staff leader at the Hewlett Foundation, Bridgespan, Greenpeace, and Rainforest Action Network. Harold studied ethics at Duke and earned an MBA at Stanford. Learn more: JacobHarold.org

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36 diagrams, 22 stories, 17 poems, nine tools, five equations, and one goal: a better world.

"A book with both rigor and hope, it's rooted in experience and brought alive by poetry. If all you have is a hammer, get The Toolbox."
―Darren Walker, President, Ford Foundation

"The one resource every socially conscious leader needs…masterfully describes how to deliver impact whether your role is in business, government, or the nonprofit sector."
―Steve Goodall, Former CEO, J.D. Power

"Jacob Harold is reinventing social change strategy. In The Toolbox, he’s taken centuries of political, military, business, and nonprofit strategy and brought them together…our world needs you to read it and take action."
―Minh-Thu Pham, Founder, New American Voices

"Through inspiring prose and poetry, this book is a must-have for change makers everywhere."
―Jeff Bradach, Co-founder, The Bridgespan Group

There are no easy solutions. Instead, there are tools.

An essential guide for anyone trying to improve our world, The Toolbox offers clarity and inspiration to leaders at all levels. Whether you’re a CEO or a community volunteer (or both), The Toolbox equips you to do good, better.

Storytelling
Mathematical Modeling
Behavioral Economics
Design Thinking
Community Organizing
Game Theory
Markets
Complex Systems
Institutions

From farm to monastery, jail to boardroom, Jacob Harold’s life has been a search for ways to make a better world. He served as CEO of GuideStar, Co-founder of Candid, and as a staff leader at the Hewlett Foundation, Bridgespan, Greenpeace, and Rainforest Action Network. Harold studied ethics at Duke and earned an MBA at Stanford. Learn more: JacobHarold.org

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Verlag
Wiley
Erscheinungsdatum
2022
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1119863333
ISBN 13 
9781119863335
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
336
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