Last year I bought a stack of books on eradicating poverty. This one is the best. One chapter, in fact, summarizes the ideas given in the other books. (And Samasource as a social business builds on other ideas -- Muhammad Yunus' "Building Social Business" was my second favorite book.) Leila was perhaps the first to recognize how the internet can totally change the approach to taking on poverty: work can now be done from anywhere, businesses no longer have borders. Her book discusses the various approaches she took in finding how to bring work to where it is needed.
I remember when reading it, I thought the LXMI chapter would be the weakest chapter. It's not. The whole book has amazing ideas and summaries of other people's ideas, all so clearly expressed. "Talent is equally distributed, opportunity is not."
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This book will make you smarter about the nature of work and humanity.
Leila Janah has written a vitally important book here - it is an excellent integration and synthesis of what actually works to improve people's lives: make them relevant by training them for entry-level work in needed areas, like data input, data cleaning, chatbots and customer support, and other work that does not require people to migrate. With electricity and some bandwidth, this type of work can be done anywhere. The model is vital for countries that want to stem the tide of emigration (brain drain) and countries that want to stem the tide of immigration - this book is perfectly timely.Check out the Samasource webpage - you'll see immediately that they're not selling charity, they're selling services - Give Work in action. And see Leila's reasoning for their use of the word Sama, detailed on page 102, "...I found the word sama, a Sanskrit word that means "equal" or "fair." Anyone who practices yoga knows that it is also the root word for many of the poses. In Arabic it means "sky:" In Hindi it's the root word for "same." I loved it. The word crystallized exactly what I wanted this company to do - give all humans an equal opportunity to make the most of their lives. We were sourcing in a way that furthered the value of sama, and so we became Samasource."Read this book, it's is important from many perspectives. And go to a book signing, Leila is inspiring.
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Check out the Samasource webpage - you'll see immediately that they're not selling charity, they're selling services - Give Work in action. And see Leila's reasoning for their use of the word Sama, detailed on page 102, "...I found the word sama, a Sanskrit word that means "equal" or "fair." Anyone who practices yoga knows that it is also the root word for many of the poses. In Arabic it means "sky:" In Hindi it's the root word for "same." I loved it. The word crystallized exactly what I wanted this company to do - give all humans an equal opportunity to make the most of their lives. We were sourcing in a way that furthered the value of sama, and so we became Samasource."
Read this book, it's is important from many perspectives. And go to a book signing, Leila is inspiring.
This book will make you smarter about the nature of work and humanity.
Reviewed in the United States on October 12, 2017
Leila Janah has written a vitally important book here - it is an excellent integration and synthesis of what actually works to improve people's lives: make them relevant by training them for entry-level work in needed areas, like data input, data cleaning, chatbots and customer support, and other work that does not require people to migrate. With electricity and some bandwidth, this type of work can be done anywhere. The model is vital for countries that want to stem the tide of emigration (brain drain) and countries that want to stem the tide of immigration - this book is perfectly timely.Reviewed in the United States on October 12, 2017
Check out the Samasource webpage - you'll see immediately that they're not selling charity, they're selling services - Give Work in action. And see Leila's reasoning for their use of the word Sama, detailed on page 102, "...I found the word sama, a Sanskrit word that means "equal" or "fair." Anyone who practices yoga knows that it is also the root word for many of the poses. In Arabic it means "sky:" In Hindi it's the root word for "same." I loved it. The word crystallized exactly what I wanted this company to do - give all humans an equal opportunity to make the most of their lives. We were sourcing in a way that furthered the value of sama, and so we became Samasource."
Read this book, it's is important from many perspectives. And go to a book signing, Leila is inspiring.
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