Module overview
Connect leadership, innovation, and value creation to stewardship and contribution.
Lessons
Value For Others
In 1976, a Bangladeshi economics professor named Muhammad Yunus lent twenty-seven dollars to forty-two villagers who could not get a bank loan. Every one of them repaid. That experiment became Grameen Bank, which has since lent over thirty billion dollars to people the traditional banking system had written off. In this lesson you will learn to see value from the other person's point of view, distinguish real needs from assumed ones, redesign something to deliver more value, and write a clear value statement.
Community Needs And Trade-Offs
In 1977, a Kenyan biologist named Wangari Maathai noticed that the streams she had played in as a child had dried up, the soil had eroded, and the women in rural villages were walking further every year to find firewood. She started a movement that planted over 51 million trees across Kenya by paying women a small amount for every seedling that survived. In this lesson you will learn to read the needs of a community in context, identify competing priorities that pull in different directions, work through a local trade-off case, and build a simple community map.
Leadership As Service
On the 24th of June 1995, Nelson Mandela walked onto a rugby field in Johannesburg wearing the green and gold Springbok jersey that had been a symbol of white South Africa for decades. He was the first Black president of a country that had spent fifty years under racial apartheid. That single act of service leadership, choosing to serve the whole nation rather than just the people who looked like him, changed how millions of South Africans saw each other. In this lesson you will learn the difference between leading for status and leading for service, practise specific service leadership habits, support a group through a real challenge, and write your own service leadership note.
Build With Responsibility
In 1989, a British computer scientist named Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web and made it free for everyone on purpose. He could have patented it and become one of the richest people in history. He chose not to, because he believed the web should belong to everyone. Thirty years later, he watched the web become a tool for surveillance, misinformation, and manipulation, and he spent the rest of his career trying to fix the problems his own invention had made possible. In this lesson you will learn that innovation always has externalities, practise asking responsible design questions, work through an impact case study, and build your own responsibility checklist.