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In today's global marketplace, companies are being asked to create innovative products and services for increasingly diverse users, cultures and environments. These 'design challenges' can be so wickedly complex that the task of aligning all of a project's stakeholders sometimes seems impossible. But it's not. The authors show that design empathy is an approach that can be embraced to draw upon people's real-world experiences and address modern challenges. They provide four strategies for scaling and sustaining design empathy within your organization, including 'telling stories, documentary-style' and 'taking clients on visceral journeys'.

Social media has created widespread confusion in many organizations. Some all but beg people to 'like' them on Facebook, while others badger consumers to follow them on Twitter. The fact is, hundreds of millions of dollars are spent each year on social media marketing strategies, and most of it achieves very little in the way of creating a sustained following. Successful social movements, by contrast, have long managed to capture and sustain followers over long periods of time-for a tiny fraction of what private companies spend on marketing. The authors describe five lessons business can we learn from social movements and their organizers.