Ground Breakers.
They are the originators, the ones who pioneer or innovate in a way that others seek to replicate. They lead, they make growth and improvement possible for the benefit of our society. Ground Breakers pierce the resistance of ideation, habit, and custom to change the way things are done.
In this episode host Mike Sullivan talks to Bob Kipp, a pioneer for damage prevention. It was Bob who started the Common Ground Alliance in the United States in the summer of 2001 – an idea that caught on and spread quickly throughout North America.
For such a great idea, it was anything but an easy sell in the beginning. Kipp shares how supporters managed to overcome opposition as the Alliance was forming, including navigating the inevitable “competing interests”
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