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Dream! Hack! Build!

Dream! Hack! Build!

By : Ann Molin, Molin, Love Dager, Mustafa Sherif, Carolina Emanuelson, Dr. Kristofer Vernmark
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Dream! Hack! Build!

Dream! Hack! Build!

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By: Ann Molin, Molin, Love Dager, Mustafa Sherif, Carolina Emanuelson, Dr. Kristofer Vernmark

Overview of this book

Drawing from the combined expertise of five distinguished professionals, this book brings together diverse perspectives on hackathon innovation. Ann, founder of Hack for Earth Foundation, joins forces with serial entrepreneur and hackathon expert Love Dager and renowned urban planner Mustafa Sherif. Completing this powerhouse team are Carolina Emanuelson, a leader in talent management, and Kristofer Vernmark, a researcher at Linköping University. Together, they present the groundbreaking "Dream! Hack! Build!" method, equipping you with proven strategies to run successful hackathons and rapidly transform ideas into reality. The book explains why hackathons are so particularly effective in today’s fast-changing business world. Through real-life examples of citizen-driven innovation, it demonstrates how these events can drive impact and how you can apply them within your own organization. You'll gain insights into how hackathons can address complex problems and foster creative, high-impact solutions. The authors cover everything from engaging participants and creating urgent challenges to managing teams, mentors, and partners. They show you how to design an acceleration program based on proven start-up success strategies, ensuring that the ideas generated during your hackathon lead to real-world results. By the end of this book, you'll be well-prepared to lead transformative events that create lasting impact in your field.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
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Part 1: Why We Hack
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Part 2: Introduction to How to Hack
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Part 3: Introduction to How to Build
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Appendix A: Appendix B

The importance of psychological safety in teams

Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.

Michael Jordan

When a start-up is successful, we often credit it to the lone genius and brilliant founder; however, the majority of new ventures are founded and led by teams, rather than by individuals. The power of teamwork cannot be underestimated as it can bring out the best in each individual under the right circumstances and therefore has the potential to become more than the sum of its parts.

A team is usually defined as a highly interdependent group of people working toward a common goal. Teams plan their work, solve problems, make decisions, and review their progress together, among many other things. The difference between a working group and a team is that team members need each other to get their work done; they are dependent upon each other. One can say that a group becomes a team when shared goals and effective methods to accomplish these...

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