The Answer Is You

A Guidebook to Creating a Life Full of Impact (Leadership Book, Change the Way You Think)

Alex Amouyel (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

272 Seiten

2025
Mango Media (Verlag)
978-1-68481-756-6 (ISBN)

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Alex Amouyel's experience at MIT Solve has helped her develop a phenomenal model that will help you go from a frustrated citizen to an effective activist and advocate. The steps in The Answer Is You will help you understand and focus your cause and then realistically assess your strengths and your limitations.

Problem-Solving Requires Innovation, Activism, and YouAn important read for those on the journey of making this world better and wondering where to start.” ―Jacqueline Novogratz, founder and CEO of Acumen, author of New York Times bestseller The Blue Sweater

People from all walks of life yearn to do something that adds value to others and to be someone who makes a difference in their community and the world.

Now Alex Amouyel is inviting you to become part of the solution. Alex, author of The Answer is You, is the founding Executive Director of Solve, an initiative at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) with a mission to solve world challenges. Solve finds incredible tech-based social entrepreneurs around the world and funds them to develop lasting, transformational tech-based solutions.

Take action for social impact. The Answer is You is here to inform you that being a change agent starts with doing good deeds and being a community helper. Everyone can do something with the skills and resources they already have─they just need ideas for how. The Answer is You inspires every person to start thinking critically about the problems we face and the solutions we might be able to offer to enact change.

Inside, you’ll find:

Motivating and encouraging stories of amazing impact innovators from MIT Solve
Guidance on how to take action in the world in big and small ways to get results
A path to hope and action for problem-solving in your community and within society

If you like books by women in leadership and enjoyed reading Create the Future + the Innovation Handbook: Tactics for Disruptive Thinking, Believe in People: Bottom-Up Solutions for a Top-Down World, The Innovator’s DNA: Mastering the Five Skills of Disruptive Innovators, you’ll love The Answer is You: A Guidebook to Creating a Life Full of Impact.

Alex Amouyel is the founding Executive Director of Solve, an initiative at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) that serves as a marketplace for social impact innovation. Since September 2016, when Alex started at Solve, she has built and now oversees a fast-growing team of twenty-six full-time employees, which has brokered funding commitments of over $25 million to Solver teams and entrepreneurs worldwide. Previously, Alex was the Director of Programs for the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI), where she curated content for CGI’s Meetings, including the flagship Annual Meeting, and oversaw speaker and government relations. At CGI, she worked with a variety of cross-sector leaders, including President Obama, Bill Gates, Sheryl Sandberg, Christine Lagarde, Madeleine Albright, Bono, Paul Polman, astronauts based at the International Space Station, President Clinton, Secretary Clinton, Chelsea Clinton, and dozens of young social entrepreneurs and activists. She lives in Cambridge, MA

Contents
Prologue

Amanda's Injustice

Introduction: Build Your Seat at the Problem-Solving Table

Part I: Problems and Purpose

Amanda's Fight
Chapter One: Reveal Your Superpowers
Chapter Two: Solve Problems That Actually Matter
Chapter Three: Find Your Purpose at the Intersection

Part II: Power and Priviledge

Amanda's Trials
Chapter Four: Choose Impact as Your Metric for Success
Chapter Five: Start with 10 Percent of Your Time and Money
Chapter Six: Wrestle with Your Personal Kryptonite and the Impact Paradox

Part III: Solutions and Grit

Amanda's Justice
Chapter Seven: Stay Optimistic and Look for Simple Solutions
Chapter Eight: Measure. Fail. Try Again!
Chapter Nine: Invest in Yourself and the Problem-Solving Mindset
Amanda's Reflection
Conclusion: If Not You, Then Who? Just Start Now

Helpful Resources to Create a Life Full of Impact

Acknowledgments

P.S.

About the Author

Erscheinungsdatum	09.04.2025
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations
Sprache	englisch
Maße	139 x 215 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Psychologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-68481-756-0 / 1684817560
ISBN-13	978-1-68481-756-6 / 9781684817566
Zustand	Neuware