Untold Innovation: A few minutes withMaurice Jones
By:丹尼克拉克
今年，在未罗革说的内容中，雷竞技电竞竞猜我们正在专注于无国界创新的故事。作为一家公司致力于在组织和部门的思想领导者中致力于创新讲故事，我们已经开始了揭示越来越多的创新思想的故事，这些思维是镀锌变化和四个主要产业的增长：技术，医疗，科学和人类的影响。我们要求您提名在您的领域的思想领导者，他们正在推动创新，并且您继续提供！
Our next innovation story comes from Maurice A. Jones, President and CEO of当地举措支持公司（LISC）。我们的谈话揭示了跨学科的创新和合作作为对相关，有影响力的工作的要求。了解LISC如何在美国，包括辛辛那提包括辛辛那提的社区中的贫困，作为他们的指导力量的倾听和辨别技巧。所以，花点时间阅读本月创新者的良好和创新工作，莫里斯·琼斯。
P.S.继续在其他人的提名中致以我们在我们的未经讨论的创新系列中突出显示。你可以完成我们的nomination form或通过信息发送电子邮件。
Maurice Jones’ Innovation Story
With deep experience in both the public and private sectors, Maurice A. Jones took the helm as LISC’s fourth president & CEO in September 2016. Immediately prior to joining LISC, he served as the Secretary of Commerce and Trade for the Commonwealth of Virginia, where he managed 13 state agencies focused on economic needs in his native state.
UC: What is your field of specialty?
MJ：人类的影响 - 我会把我的工作放在那个类别中。
UC：您的个人创新故事在哪里开始？
MJ：我被训练为律师，并继续练习法律一会儿。我在联邦和州政府工作。我总是有工作的目标是对人们的生活产生影响。在90年代后期，我了解到了当地举措支持公司（LISC）when I was working at the Treasury Department, and came to admire their work in the Development Finance arena. When the CEO job opened up three years ago, I got a call about it. I welcomed the chance to work for LISC because I had already known about its impact, breadth, scale, and the fact that it concentrates on folks who have gone through a season of under investment. It was the combination of the powerful mission and the fact that LISC had the capacity to really help people transform their lives and the trajectories of the communities they live in. The work is so rewarding, and there’s plenty of it. You have to be innovative to get this work done.
Our innovative work has been going on now for 40+ years, and we have to continue to innovate in order to stay relevant to today’s problems. At the end of the day, we’re fighting poverty, and we’re trying to use market-based mechanisms in an innovative way.
UC: What are the impacts of LISC’s work on the field at large?
MJ：我们工作的影响是巨大的。Throughout the history of this organization, we’ve developed or preserved over 400,000 units of affordable housing, ultimately housing over a million people. In addition to that, we have been using the market to develop and preserve essential community facilities in low and moderate income places like childcare, charter schools, and commercial facilities where businesses can put up residence and do work. We’ve also developed places like theaters and recreation fields. Our work has led to over 67 million square feet of commercial facilities or community facilities being developed. Lastly, I’d highlight some of the work we’ve been doing in developing or launching businesses in these disinvested places. Thousands of businesses have been financed and expanded with the help of this kind of capital, and we’re working in some of the toughest places in the country. The impacts, I’ll tell you, have been tremendous, and they’re replicable all over the world.
In the U.S. alone, we already work in 35 cities, and then we work in another 2,100 rural counties in 45 states. The lesson is that this work is eminently doable and actually works to fight the problem that places want to fight. The key is that it requires a team of people from different sectors doing this work. What I mean by that is, the work that we do always requires us to work with partners in the communities. You’ll have health care at the table. You’ll have financial institutions at the table. You’ll have local government at the table. You’ll have nonprofits at the table. You’ll have philanthropy at the table.对于这种实际上是成功的工作，对人们产生真正的影响，它需要来自多个部门的高功能团队来完成工作。那就是关于它的一切。播放领域的最高功能团队将完成。跨学科合作是创新的本质。它是基岩 - 基础。
UC: What role do you feel that storytelling plays in innovation? Could you describe the importance of storytelling to your own work?
MJ：夸大讲故事的重要性真的很难。看，你通过故事来移动人们。你可以用你掌握资本堆栈和掌握工作的机制的能力的能力炫耀，但你实际上可以通过将人们的故事亮起来创造改变。讲故事，在这项工作中，对建立支持，建立合作伙伴并帮助人们真正了解工作的力量至关重要。有时，你可以在机械师的细节中迷失，失去人们的故事。这是人们实际维持工作的故事。讲故事，特别是关于您试图提供帮助的人的旅程，是工作的氧气。
UC: What one piece of advice would you give to future innovators?
MJ：A real key prerequisite to innovation is listening. Innovation begins with listening to the community and then discerning what problems need to be addressed.You know, 80 percent of the game is accurately understanding the problem. Then you can work from there to devise the solutions, but the first step is listening.
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