Daily Archives: October 14, 2023

Book Bits: 14 October 2023

Big Bets: How Large-Scale Change Really Happens
Rajiv Shah
Review via The Wall Street Journal
It turns out that the most useful steps toward reaching big goals often involve smaller ones—the snug, good actions that Mr. Goodman (in McGuffey’s dialogue) would have appreciated. In stopping the spread of Ebola, Mr. Shah reports, “among the most effective means” were new ways of burying victims of the disease, developed by community groups. And in response to the spread of Covid, the Rockefeller Foundation, under Mr. Shah’s leadership, focused on the practical step of improving diagnostic testing, a critical matter after the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s tests proved unreliable.

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