Acumen Presents: Scott Sonenshein on Resourcefulness
What you'll learn
- Shift from a chasing mindset to a stretching mindset
- Reimagine what is necessary to achieve your goals, and begin to see the value of your constraints
- Practice implementing a stretch mindset in your daily life—at work and at home
- Apply a stretching mindset to key issues facing social entrepreneurs including constrained funding, limited resources, and environmental/circumstantial changes
Requirements
- This course is open to anyone who wants to learn how to become more resourceful. There are no prerequisites.
Description
Social entrepreneurs exist in environments of scarcity—they’re consistently strapped for time and funding, and yet are trying to tackle some of the world’s biggest challenges, like homelessness, healthcare, and energy access for the poor. What if they could unlock new mindsets and skills to learn how to leverage their constraints and achieve greater impact with less?
In this course, Scott Sonenshein—author of Stretch: Unlock the Power of Less and Achieve More Than You Ever Imagined, and professor of business at Rice University—will use engaging stories and research to teach social entrepreneurs how they can stretch what they have and succeed using the science of resourcefulness.
Scott will present his framework about the key pillars of a stretch mindset along with business case studies and practical exercises that you can use to practice applying a “stretch” mindset in your life and organization. Specifically you will define a "Stretching Challenge" that you're facing in your own life or work and use each of the course exercises and lessons to reconceptualize it while uncovering new or hidden resources that can lead to breakthrough solutions. This course is ideal for anyone facing constraints and obstacles in their life or organization, or who wants to consider their opportunities and resources in a new, more optimistic light.
Who this course is for:
- Social entrepreneurs, nonprofit employees, or anyone who wants to make meaningful change while facing resource constraints
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Acumen is changing the way the world tackles poverty by investing in companies, leaders and ideas. We invest patient capital in businesses whose products and services are enabling the poor to transform their lives. Founded by Jacqueline Novogratz in 2001, Acumen has invested more than $110 million in 102 companies across Africa, Latin America, South Asia and the United States. We are also developing a global community of emerging leaders with the knowledge, skills and determination to create a more inclusive world. In 2015, Acumen was named one of Fast Company's Top 10 Most Innovative Not-for-Profit Companies.
Acumen Academy is the world’s school for social change. Our mission is to unleash a new generation of social innovators and leaders with the determination and grit to build a more just, inclusive and sustainable world. Blending the best of online and offline learning, we offer anyone, anywhere access to the practical tools, practices, resources and supportive community they need to achieve positive social change. With 700 Fellows and 500,000 course takers in 193 countries, the Acumen Academy community represents a new generation of social innovators and leaders committed to doing what’s right in a world that loves easy.
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Scott Sonenshein is the author of Stretch: Unlock the Power of Less and Achieve More Than You Ever Imagined and the Henry Gardiner Symonds Professor of Management at Rice University. His award winning research, teaching, and consulting has helped Fortune 500 executives, entrepreneurs, and professionals in industries such as technology, healthcare, retail, education, banking, manufacturing, and non-profits. He holds a PhD in management and organizations from the University of Michigan.