You Can

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You Can

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Have you ever wanted to help amid disaster and loss—but wondered where to begin?

After Hurricane Katrina, I brought an untested idea to New Orleans’s Gentilly district: volunteers could map the aftermath to guide rebuilding. I was an organizational scientist with little money, few volunteers, and no complete plan. My own life was unraveling.

Still, I began.

Residents and students joined in. Together, we turned our willingness to help into useful, shared work. An organization emerged beyond what I had imagined.

YOU CAN is my memoir of how we became capable together—and how my faith took shape through action amid doubt.

Publisher: Spines
Language: English
ISBN: 9798906583826
Page Count: 368

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1. Prologue

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Quintus Jett, Ph.D., is an organizational scientist and educator who studies how people become capable together. His doctoral work at Stanford’s School of Engineering focused on organizations and innovation management. He has taught across business, engineering, public administration, and social entrepreneurship.

After Hurricane Katrina, he led a volunteer mapping effort in New Orleans’s Gentilly district. His work explores the gamble of open organizing: how people connect their knowledge and resources before anyone has a complete plan.

YOU CAN brings that inquiry to life through his experience of service, doubt, and faith.

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