The People Factor

Thank you for a great first year!!  Looking forward to the Second Season of THE PEOPLE FACTOR!!!  Join us next week for Episode 1!!!

In this holiday episode, please join me to take a look at how our attitudes about poverty and the poor shape our ability to take action to help, hinder or just plain ignore.

As we wrap up looking at scarcity, taking a look at how those living in abundance view those living in poverty seems pretty important.  Traditional attitudes are both ungenerous and unfair.  Where did they come from and who or what, in reality needs to change?

Note:  Due to scheduling issues, THE PEOPLE FACTOR will scale back to one podcast per week for the next few months.  Thank you so much for listening and please continue to join us every Wednesday for a new episode.

Figuring out how to provide programs and services to lift people out of poverty is complex.  In the book SCARCITY:  WHY HAVING TOO LITTLE MEANS SO MUCH, the authors outline two particular things to consider when designing programs to help the poor - slack and bandwidth.  Join us to explore how these simple considerations could change the course of people's lives and greatly reduce poverty world-wide.

How can poverty be alleviated?  There are so many out there trying to help.  Yet, without an understanding of how scarcity impacts our minds, these programs are doomed to fail.  Join host Jane Turville to examine how this plays out in our world today.

The bandwidth tax is an enormous burden for those living in poverty.  Learn more as we continue our journey through SCARCITY; WHY HAVING TOO LITTLE MEANS SO MUCH.

Join us to learn why getting out of the scarcity trap is so very difficult.

Join me to look at how behavior, influenced by the scarcity mindset, actually increases scarcity.  We'll look at how borrowing leads to juggling ever and ever increasing network of commitments and debts.

To learn more about the authors, please visit https://www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/cid/publications/books/scarcity-why-having-too-little-means-so-much .

How does scarcity change the way we see the world?  Check out this episode of THE PEOPLE FACTOR to find out!