Ann Mei Chang - Lean Impact: How to Innovate for Radically Greater Social Good

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1. Chapter 01
2. Chapter 02
3. Chapter 03
4. Chapter 04
5. Chapter 05
6. Chapter 06
7. Chapter 08
8. Chapter 09
9. Chapter 12
10. Chapter 13
11. Chapter 14

Ann Mei Chang understands what it takes to create social impact on a massive scale. In this book, she lays out a clear course for developing more effective solutions to our greatest human challenges, including the persistence of extreme poverty, and most importantly ensuring they are able to reach millions.

Sir Fazle Hasan Abed, Founder and Chairperson, BRAC

Run, dont walk, to buy this book if you are interested in innovation or simply in finding solutions to our worlds current problems. Lean Impact is smart and thoughtful, a mix of head and heart, practical and yet full of hope. Ann Mei Changs wisdom will provide a useful guide for how to think, and more important, how to act.

Jacqueline Novogratz, CEO, Acumen

Lean Impact helps us all see a brighter future in fighting global poverty by bringing lessons from innovation successes in the tech, NGO, and business worlds to bear on the worlds biggest problems. Its a book anyone who cares about making change in the world should read and take to heart. I believe innovation and learning fast from mistakes is what will ultimately save the lives of at least 10 million children in the next decade and hopefully more.

Carolyn Miles, President and CEO, Save the Children

Innovation and scale are two of the hottest topics in the social sector today yet that attention has not yet led to nearly enough breakthrough ideas achieving widespread impact. Ann Mei Changs book Lean Impact explains why current approaches limit our impact and what we can do to fix that. Based on deep work across sectors, Chang offers fresh insights into how leaders can chart a path from innovation to impact at scale. An important read for all those seeking change in the United States and around the world.

Jeffrey L. Bradach, Managing Partner and Cofounder, Bridgespan Group

Ann Mei Changs new book Lean Impact is a mustread for development professionals, policymakers, and indeed anyone interested in ensuring more effective programs to lift people out of poverty. Chang brings a disruptive sensibility garnered from her many years in Silicon Valley to the challenges of international development and poverty alleviation more generally. The development field has long needed fresh breezes of radically creative ideas. Chang delivers them in this immensely readable and practical volume.

David Gordon, Senior Advisor and former Chairman, Eurasia Group and former Director of Policy Planning, US Department of State

The most successful social enterprises continually iterate in pursuit of transformational change. Lean Impact demystifies the process of social innovation and makes it accessible to entrepreneurs and grant makers alike.

Christy Chin, Managing Partner, Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation

Lean Impact distills the essence of social innovation into an accessible book, packed with practical examples. These approaches to design, test, iterate, and scale will accelerate our collective ability to bring breakthrough solutions to those who need them most.

Michelle Nunn, President and CEO, CARE USA

Lean Impact is indispensable. Ann Mei Chang challenges us to ask ourselves hard questions: Do you know how well your efforts are working? What improvements have you made in response to feedback? As the urgency for transformational impact grows for our planet and people, todays social entrepreneurs, nonprofits, philanthropies, and governments must embrace userfocused, hypothesisdriven experimentation. Ann Mei does a masterful job of sharing compelling and inspiring stories of what we can achieve when we put aside our biases and assumptions to design solutions that meet real needs.

Victor Reinoso, COO, Independent Sector

Lean Impact is going to be an essential reference for this generation of development workers. The books many case studies provide both inspiring examples and cautionary tales that help explain in clear, actionable language how the independent sector can adapt Silicon Valleys playbook for growing and scaling innovation to build agile twentyfirstcentury social enterprises dedicated to creating more just, inclusive, and prosperous communities.

Patrick Fine, CEO, FHI 360

To tackle the intractable problems that our world faces today, we need effective methodologies for innovation. Lean Impact provides compelling tools and techniques for developing solutions with positive social impact that are highly complementary to humancentered design.

Jocelyn Wyatt, CEO, IDEO.org

From Silicon Valley to bureaucratic Washington DC to the povertystricken villages of the developing world, Ann Mei Chang chronicles an adventurous journey as she attempts to apply the innovative techniques learned in the hightech world to the challenges of development cooperation. This book is a mustread for aspiring development professionals and any citizen who cares about the effort to support those trying to escape the shackles of poverty.

Brian Atwood, Senior Fellow, Watson Institute, Brown University and former Administrator, USAID

This book is a mustread for anyone seeking to have real impact in their communities and the world. It provides practical advice on how to define outcomes, measure impact, and demonstrate change. Ann Mei inspires leaders to deliver outcomes.

Sonal Shah, Executive Director, Beeck Center for Social Impact & Innovation at Georgetown University

For years innovation has lagged in the social change sector. This is starting to change but not nearly fast enough. Lean Impact is a timely wakeup call and a practical approach for social entrepreneurs and change makers everywhere. It should be required reading for funders and practitioners who are committed to bigger, better impact and smart solutions for our toughest challenges.

Neal KenyGuyer, CEO, Mercy Corps

Innovation and smart risktaking are the norm in Silicon Valley, but less so in the social sector. Thats because of how we fund, account for costs, and tell stories. Ann Mei Chang, with a foot in both of these worlds, has given us a blueprint for how to do things differently. The result is required reading for philanthropists and leaders of nonprofits and a recipe for better conversations all around.

Alix Zwane, CEO, Global Innovation Fund

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