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Book Review: This is Service Design Thinking: Basics, Tools, Cases
By Jakob Schneider, Marc Stickdorn Schneider, J. and Stickdorn, M. (2011) This is Service Design Thinking: Basics, Tools, Cases, John Wiley and Sons, New Jersey Guest Reviewer: Jacqueline Wechsler Design is not the narrow application of formal skills, it is a way of thinking. – Chris Pullman This is Service Design Thinking presents an inter-disciplinary approach to service innovation. Where the distinction between product and services is disappearing, and where the services sector within Australia … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews, Issue 13: Autumn 2012, Social Design, Social Innovation
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Book Review: Change by Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organisations and Inspires Innovation
By Tim Brown and Barry Katz Brown, T. and Katz, B. (2009) Change by Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organisations and Inspires Innovation, Harper Business, New York Guest Reviewer: Joanne Hutchinson If you are attracted to design thinking, and wondering where to start, then let me introduce you to one of my favourite books in this area: Change by Design – How design thinking transforms organisations and inspires innovation. This book is a pleasure to … Continue reading
Book Review: The Illusions of Entrepreneurship, Scott A. Shane, 2008, Yale University.
Reviewed by Cheryl Kernot UK social entrepreneurship and social innovation pioneer, (currently CEO of NESTA), Geoff Mulgan recommended this book as a useful and interesting read. I wanted to see whether the same “illusions” might apply equally to social entrepreneurs. Specifically written for the diverse audience of entrepreneurs, investors and policy makers Shane’s motivation in writing is to challenge the repeated and unhelpful myths surrounding entrepreneurship discourse: how so many “penniless dropouts become multimillionaires” , … Continue reading
Book Review: Volunteers: A social profile
Book by Marc A. Musick and John Wilson. Published by Indiana University Press, 2008 Reviewed by Prof. Ram Cnaan Twenty years ago I was able to read everything that was written on volunteers; today, Musick and Wilson demonstrate that it is no longer possible. This book is the most successful attempt to provide an authoritative review of the state of knowledge on volunteering, looking at hundreds of sources. For many reasons outlined in the first … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews, Issue 9: Autumn 2011, Volunteering
Tagged not-for-profit managment, volunteer
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Book Review: The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
Book by William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer, HarperCollins, 2009. Reviewed by Barbara Merz. This book was my companion while delayed at an airport recently. Right beside the Starbucks café at LAX airport waiting for my flight to Sydney I noticed an advert with a small Afghani girl with bright eyes and a determined face. It read ‘Role Model.’ Fellow travelers were stopping by, perhaps jarred by the message. The poster was part of a broader … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews, Issue 6: Autumn 2010
Tagged Africa, book, environment, global poverty, Malawi, social entrepreneur, Social Innovation, sustainability, William Kamkwamba
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Book Review: Blessed Unrest
Book by Paul Hawken. Reviewed by Jonathon Fisher. “Only connect,” wrote the British author E.M. Forster. This is the message I take from Paul Hawken’s Blessed Unrest, a book which has important lessons for those of us catalysing social change movements. Blessed Unrest suggests that although there are vast numbers of people and organisations who share the desire for a transition to a saner and wiser culture, most of them are not connected with each … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews, Issue 7: Winter 2010
Tagged Australia, book, Emma Goldman, Leadership, Paul Ray, social inclusion, Social Innovation, sustainability, values, Wake Up Sydney
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Book Review: Creating a World Without Poverty
Book by Muhammad Yunus. Reviewed by Barbara Merz. Creating a World Without Poverty could easily have been a retrospective. After all, its author has plenty to reflect upon. Instead, the book is unmistakably forward-looking. This book presents a compelling vision for the future of capitalism. It envisions a market where social businesses emerge to address social issues. Muhammad Yunus could have rested on his laurels when he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006. … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews, Corporate Responsibility, Ethics, Issue 4: Spring 2009, Social Enterprise, Social Investment
Tagged book, Corporate Responsibility, Ethics, global poverty, Grameen Bank, Leadership, microcredit, microfinance, Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Peace Prize, social business, Social Innovation, Social Investment
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Book Review: The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty
BY Peter Singer, Text Publishing , Melbourne; 2009. Reviewed by Dr. Michael Liffman, Director, Asia-Pacific Centre for Social Investment and Philanthropy, Swinburne University. Peter Singer’s latest book should be one of his least controversial – and, paradoxically, therefore one of his most important. Singer’s ideas inevitably excite heated debate, largely because, notwithstanding their extraordinary lucidity, logic and respect for facts, they rest on premises – the priority of avoiding suffering, the interests of animals, the … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews, Issue 3: Autumn 2009
Tagged book, Ethics, generosity, global poverty, Leadership, philanthropy, Social Investment, volunteer
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