
The Gumption of Mr. Toilet
Mobilizing the World to Effect Change
Jack Sim(Author)
Penguin Random House SEA (Publisher)
Published on 26. November 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
428 pages
978-981-5144-80-2 (ISBN)
Description
As technology rapidly replaces rote learning in education, Gumption becomes a critical skill in everyone's survival in the future. This book demonstrates how you can use Gumption to leverage other people's assets and resources, and mobilise them into achieving common goals at exponential scale. This story tell of how Jack Sim who was born poor and failed academically, became a successful serial entrepreneur and an ultra-successful serial social entrepreneur, changing the world by mobilising global movements. He also eventually became a professor with an Honorary Doctorate Degree. This is a life-changing inspirational book that you will benefit abundantly while reading it.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Singapore
Product notice
Paperback (UK-trade)
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 133 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
467 gr
ISBN-13
978-981-5144-80-2 (9789815144802)
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Person
Widely known as Mr Toilet, Jack Sim broke the global taboo around toilets and sanitation. He founded the World Toilet Organization (WTO), a global non-profit working towards a world with clean, safe toilets and sanitation for everyone, everywhere, at all times. Born in a slum in Singapore in 1957, he learned entrepreneurship and gumption from his uneducated mother who started a series of small businesses. He was also inspired by the gumption of Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew and grew up watching the amazing transformation of his country from Third World to First.