The Four Workarounds for Overwhelmed Managers

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The idea of walking around requires adaptation, flexibility, and imperfection learning as well. When you start pursuing walk-arounds, it conducive to planning less and being more adaptive,. It's more pragmatic. It's less about long-term changes and behaviors. Paulo Coelho: I'm curious, is there a type or category of problem or trigger that gets you thinking since you know the stuff really well? "There's probably one of the four workarounds I can use here," he says.

Paulo Savaget reveals unconventional tactics to solve just about any problem.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) The four workarounds–and how to use them.

2) How to maximize incentives to start change.

3) Why you shouldn’t let limited resources stop you.

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— ABOUT PAULO —

Paulo Savaget is associate professor at Oxford University’s Engineering Sciences Department and the Saïd Business School. He holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge as a Gates Scholar and has a background working as a lecturer, consultant, entrepreneur, and researcher finding innovative solutions for a more inclusive world. As a consultant, he worked on projects for large companies, non-profits, government agencies in Latin America, and the OECD. He currently resides in Oxford.

• Book: The Four Workarounds: Strategies from the World's Scrappiest Organizations for Tackling Complex Problems

• Website: Oxford Said Business School

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• Book: Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado-Perez

• Book: Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World by Adam Grant

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