The Prosperity Paradox. How Innovations Can Life Nations Our of Poverty. Clayton M. Christensen. 2019.\u00a0 ISBN 9780062851826.\u00a0 \u00a0 Christensen is the most respected name in\u00a0 any discussion of innovation with numerous relevant books to his name.\u00a0 ( E.g. The Innovators Dilemma). He turns his attention to how can you turn around poverty . Using his theory of Jobs That Need to Be Done, he reverses our view from providing infrastructure first ( Banking, Ports, water systems\u00a0 justice, anticorruption etc) to what inhibits the day to day life of the common man. He provides many case studies from American history and modern third world entrepreneurs who had to “do it all ” in order to build their companies, and put in place the infrastructure needed.\u00a0 and examples of huge failed projects.\u00a0 \u00a0His point of view just makes so much sense, his chapter of corruption shining a fresh light on the subject.\u00a0 \u00a0Very readable with his detailed\u00a0 footnotes that are as valuable as the text.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Christensen is the most respected name in\u00a0 any discussion of innovation with numerous relevant books to his name.\u00a0 ( E.g. The Innovators Dilemma). He turns his attention to how can you turn around poverty . Using his theory of Jobs That Need to Be Done, he reverses our view from providing infrastructure first ( Banking, Ports, water systems\u00a0 justice, anticorruption etc) to what inhibits the day to day life of the common man. He provides many case studies from American history and modern third world entrepreneurs who had to “do it all ” in order to build their companies, and put in place the infrastructure needed.\u00a0 and examples of huge failed projects.\u00a0 \u00a0His point of view just makes so much sense, his chapter of corruption shining a fresh light on the subject.\u00a0 \u00a0Very readable with his detailed\u00a0 footnotes that are as valuable as the text.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2149,6,12],"tags":[131,2485,1031,3176,2777,980,855],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9720"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9720"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9721,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9720\/revisions\/9721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}