The Same 100: Let’s Create a New Problem: Building the Conditions for Relevant Skills and Business Growth

Introduction

Let’s create a new problem – one specific enough to tackle, meaningful enough to impact millions of people, and outrageous enough to mobilize action.  Let’s tackle the “Same 100” challenge in a way that creates a “new 10,000” problem that, at a different scale, constrains business growth, impacts economic development, and helps to meet some of the expectations of millions of people. 

But first, the Same 100 challenge.  

The Same 100 – building the conditions for sustained employment & impact in Africa & the Middle East

Introduction

Let’s create a new problem – one specific enough to tackle, meaningful enough to impact millions of people, and outrageous enough to mobilize action.  Let’s tackle the “Same 100” challenge in a way that creates a “new 10,000” problem that, at a different scale, constrains business growth, impacts economic development, and helps to meet some of the expectations of millions of people.

But first, the Same 100 challenge. 

It’s about the lines, not the nodes: changing what to look at, and why

I was speaking with someone on my team the other day… we’re working on a big hairy audacious project to support a global roll-out into over 10 countries, based on sophisticated mathematical modeling (underlying the products) and significantly different environments to which the products, technologies, processes, governance and, ok, lots of other stuff needs to be adapted to “fit.”  We’ve been working with “deep experts” in a variety of fields, globally and this person, let’s call her Nell, was intimidated.  “Jump in – and guide the discussion,” I encouraged her.  “But I don’t have the expertise any of these people have,” was her response.