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What if the fact that no one can help you at your bank, doctor, airline, job —you name it—is on purpose? In One Size Fits None, social entrepreneurship experts Alejandro Juárez Crawford and Miriam Plavin-Masterman argue that these systems are unresponsive by design. They show how this unresponsiveness extends across industries and breeds inaction on larger problems like climate change and unaffordable housing and food. The book goes beyond just highlighting current failures. Pairing an accessible style with sharp analysis, One Size Fits None shows that it doesn’t have to be this way.

A podcast co-hosted by Alejandro Juárez Crawford and Mim Plavin-Masterman. A show about everyday people reimagining the way things work—and tackling the obstacles they face. We explore adventures in democratizing innovation—how the chance to try one’s hand at something new affects people and even organizations, what “powers” they discover and what challenges they face along the way. We dig into access: what determines who gets the chance to try and disrupt the way things work? We examine obstacles in specific industries and communities, and go deep with people working to break ...