Description
Book SynopsisEarly in the COVID-19 pandemic, a global volunteer collaboration called Pivot Projects was formed to rethink how the world works. In
The Pivot, the journalist Steve Hamm, who embedded in the group from the start, tells the remarkable story of a collaborative experiment seeking to make societies more sustainable and resilient.
Trade ReviewHamm, one of the most talented business journalists, has reached across fields, culture, and continents to bring to life an optimistic vision of social change. Against a backdrop of tragedy, the Pivot Projects have tapped brilliant creative minds to provide realistic solutions to vexing problems through imagination and action. -- Jeffrey A. Sonnenfeld, senior associate dean for leadership studies and Lester Crown Professor in the Practice of Management, Yale School of Management
The Pivot is an engaging nonstop ride through the development of a vision to address the world’s major problems by systems scientists and community activists who came together to assess key challenges that face us. -- Michael Batty, Bartlett Professor of Planning and Chair of the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, University College London
The Pivot is a readable and engaging narrative account of an audacious attempt to stimulate change at a global level. -- Professor Ruth Crick, Director, Jearni Sciences CIC
The book effortlessly guides us through the ideation and inception stages of the project, onto the pivots undertaken and lessons learned through trial and error, finally revealing how this framework of local action began to emerge, before handing it over to us, the inspired reader, to take what we've learned and contribute to the mission of tackling climate change. * SmartThinkingBooks *
Exceptionally well written, organized and presented, "The Pivot: Addressing Global Problems Through Local Action" is an inherently informed and informative study and one that should be a part of every community, college, and university library Sustainable/Green Business Development collection and supplemental curriculum studies list. * Midwest Book Review *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Mission
Poem: An Imagined Letter from COVID-19 to Humans
2. The Core Team
Profile: Shulamit Morris-Evans, British Extinction Rebellion activist
3. The Scrum
Profile: Waël Alafandi, Syrian refugee studying in France
4. Struggles
Profile: Anh Nguyen, Vietnamese fish exporter studying in Sweden
5. Remapping the World
Profile: Tom Rossiter, American architect and photographer
6. The Theory of Everything
Profile: Anna Panagiotou, Greek archaeologist
7. Rethinking Resilience
Profile: Sharmin Sarah Mim, Bangladeshi teacher-trainer
8. Talking to Robots
Profile: Shay Hershkovitz, Israeli political scientist and start-up executive
9. Points of Light
Profile: Gamelilhe Sibanda, Zimbabwean technical adviser to the United Nations
10. Places
Profile: Paola Bay, Italian artist and designer
11. Bright Ideas
Profile: Ian Mabbett, Welsh university professor and inventor
12. Connecting
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