{"product_id":"the-gumption-of-mr-toilet","title":"The Gumption of Mr Toilet: Mobilizing the World to Effect Change","description":"\u003cul class=\"tabs\"\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"active\"\u003eDescription\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePraise\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"tabs-content\"\u003e\n\u003cli class=\"active\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAmazing stories of gumption through the enterprising journeys of Mr Toilet\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs technology rapidly replaces rote learning in education, Gumption becomes a critical skill in everyone’s survival in the future.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is a life-changing inspirational book that you will benefit abundantly while reading it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“His book, written in a down-to-earth style, captures his \u003cem\u003eikigai\u003c\/em\u003e.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Goh Chok Tong, Emeritus Senior Minister, Prime Minister of Singapore (1990–2004)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“His vision in founding the World Toilet Organization has resulted in a cleaner and better world.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—\u003ca rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/epigrambookshop.xyz\/collections\/authors\/author_tommy-koh\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eProf Tommy Koh\u003c\/a\u003e, Ambassador-at-Large, Ministry of Foreign Affairs\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWidely known as Mr Toilet, \u003cstrong\u003eJack Sim\u003c\/strong\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom school failure, he became a serial commercial businessman (sixteen businesses). After attaining financial independence he left the rat-race to become a serial social entrepreneur. After fighting the bureaucrats, he enrolled at Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy and graduated with a Master’s in Public Administration at the age of 56.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe also graduated at Singularity University’s Global Solutions Program at age fifty-nine. Some of the awards he won are: Schwab Fellow of the World Economic Forum, Ashoka Global Fellow, Queen Elizabeth's Points of Light Award, Clinton Global Initiatives Fellow, \u003cem\u003eTime Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e’s Heroes of the Environment for 2008. For his contribution to humanity, he received an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow UK in 2022.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Times Distribution","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49185899643177,"sku":"9789815144802","price":26.9,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/0041\/files\/81fzzL-WntL.jpg?v=1724831010","url":"https:\/\/epigrambookshop.xyz\/products\/the-gumption-of-mr-toilet","provider":"Epigram","version":"1.0","type":"link"}