News, Views (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Bill Strickland.No, he is not a Nobel Laureate. Not yet.But if his job training centre and crafts school model is successfully replicated all over America and the World then it wont be long coming. If microcredit can win Prof. Mohammad Yunus a Nobel Peace Prize than why not Bill Strickland? I am terribly impressed by Bill Strickland's achievement.He lives The...
Quickthink (Free subscription) | 10/17/2009
... kind of education offers these skills? We had a lively and interesting discussion, and we watched Bill Strickland’s presentation at TED . BTW, Bill is a pretty amazing community builder. Here is a quote from Bill If you want to involve yourself in the lives of people who have been given up on, you have to look like the solution and not the problem.
Quickthink (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
... Brown’s statement by adding “poverty is an opportunity to build community”. That reminded me of Bill Strickland. Here is a link to his Ted presentation about working in neighborhoods that everyone gave up for dead. FOLLOW - In fact, poverty may be an opportunity for business too. C. K. Prahalad wrote an interesting book about how multinational corporations should begin selling to...
