- Bill Strickland
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"Make the Impossible Possible" is released on paperback by Broadway Books, Order now! ...More
One Man's Crusade to Inspire Others to Dream Bigger and Achieve the Extraordinary...
“Bill Strickland could sell anything . . . Read this book and you'll understand why he is such an inspiration to practicing and aspiring entrepreneurs.” —James Heskett, Harvard Business School
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Make the Impossible Possible, January 12, 2010By...Sacramento Book Review (SacramentoBookReview.com)
If you've read a good number of inspirational books, specially the ones written by world-famous bestselling authors, it's easy to spot the pattern that its writers have comfortably settled into when piecing together prose with the aim of enlightening you, motivating you, and encouraging you. Almost all of them follow a particular formula of presenting the lessons, usually in a numbered order and then buffeted with many stories to support such lessons. The structure to this approach is logical, but problem is that it wears off. When you go back to real life, the stories become meaningless, and the lessons turn hollow and useless.
This is not the case with Bill Strickland's //Make The Impossible Possible: One Man's Crusade to Inspire Others to Dream Bigger and Achieve the Ordinary//, written with Vince Rause. What you'll get are not plucked stories of different people, but a life story of a single man who has to struggle to succeed. But beyond the autobiographic nature of the book, what you'll take away are the real-life lessons that can be learned, absorbed, and applied.
On January 19, 2010 at 7:30 p.m. on WGBH Boston (channel 2), watch María Hinojosa interview Bill Strickland!
María Hinojosa: One-on-One is a provocative in-depth talk show featuring in-depth conversations with America's foremost thinkers, artists, writers, and opinion leaders.
MacArthur “genius” award recipient Bill Strickland is President and CEO of Manchester Bidwell Corp, which combines an arts program for schoolchildren with a job-training center for adults in inner-city Pittsburgh. He explains how having high expectations for people helps them succeed.
Starting on January 20, the interview will be available in its entirety at www.wgbh.org/oneonone
"Unlocking Human Potential"
by Kathleen Martin...
Bill Strickland looks for future leaders in disadvantaged neighborhoods. His "big city" approach is worth replicating in smaller communities.
Bill Strickland is looking for coffee, but the metal grid around the café at Halifax's Pier 21 is shut. It's 9:30 a.m., and Strickland has already finished one meeting today. Dressed in a dark suit and butter-yellow tie, he takes one more resigned glance at the closed café before cheerfully waving me to the chair next to him. "Sit down! Sit down!"
How to save a city, one kid at a time
Meredith Macleod
The Hamilton Spectator
(Dec 1, 2009)
Bill Strickland has never left the inner-city Pittsburgh neighbourhood where he grew up.
But he has transformed it. Strickland, who has been called an entrepreneur of social change, was the keynote speaker last night at Hamilton Place -- where a rapt audience of more than 1,000 heard ideas that could inspire Hamilton...More
"Urban job centers and Black economic recovery"
By: Devona Walker at www.theloop21.com
We’ve watched the job numbers and welfare tolls rise, the home equity numbers plummet and the foreclosures and bankruptcies soar. But don’t think solutions for those most affected, black people, are on the way. We need to push that agenda ourselves.
And there’s a best practices model out there, on which we should be engaging. Bill Strickland, who heads the Bidwell Training Center, has the answer and wants to help other cities around the country replicate his success. He wants to teach nonprofit leaders how to think like entrepreneurs...More
Bill Strickland, author of the 2009 Common Freshman Reader, Make the Impossible Possible, was on Indiana University of Pennsylvania's campus to share his personal story in an evening lecture Wednesday, November 17, 2009.
The 2009–2010 Common Freshman Reader Selection Committee at Indiana University Pennsylvania selects: Make the Impossible Possible: One Man's Crusade to Inspire Others to Dream Bigger and Achieve the Extraordinary, by Bill Strickland.
To set the tone for academic excellence, IUP offers a common reading program to all new students. Each student receives a copy of the chosen book and is invited to read it before the start of the school year.
"An exhilarating and introspective memoir of one man's journey to the pinnacle of personal and professional success. An inspiring personal portrait of passion, challenge and triumph which provides valuable and practical advice for realizing personal and professional aspirations. A must read!" Tony Atwater, Ph.D. President, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Click here to find out more about the Common Freshman Reader
"Man overcomes poverty, now helps teens"
WPTV.com-NBC 5, Palm Beach, California
November 6, 2009
WEST PALM BEACH, FL -- Bill Strickland's life changed when his teacher encouraged him in an arts program.
It made such an impact on his life, that he wanted to share the experience.
"So I ended up taking my arts and ceramics experience and applying it to my neighborhood in the 60s during the riots in Pittsburgh to try and create some type of alternative to that way of living for the kids in the neighborhood, he said. "Their parents said whatever you are doing with my kids they are starting to go to school more regularly and they started showing up more regularly, their grades started to improve."
Decades later, his after-school program is still thriving with more than 500 students.
Watch a news report featuring Bill Strickland...More
Strickland profiled on Global News National, in Halifax, Nova Scotia:
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Strickland profiled on CNN.com
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THE WALL STREET JOURNAL GOES ONE ON ONE WITH PITTSBURGH'S BILL STRICKLAND...CEO OF MANCHESTER CRAFTSMAN'S GUILD
Bill Strickland turned his love of ceramics into a creative outlet for disadvantaged city kids.
Nationally Syndicated Talk Show Host- Bev Smith Interviews Bill Strickland, President & CEO Manchester-Bidwell Corporation. Strickland is nationally recognized as a visionary leader who authentically delivers educational and cultural opportunities to students and adults within an organizational culture that fosters innovation, creativity, responsibility and integrity.
Watch the interview click link below:
http://www.bevsmithtalks.com/interviews/billstrickland.html
"Make the Impossible Possible" is published in Korea...More details
The book is making a splash in Korea, and featured on the TV program "The Night with Books", which was broadcast by KBS, the famous TV company in Korea.
"Make the Impossible Possible" is out in Japan...More
The Japanese translation of Bill Strickland’s book Make the Impossible Possible was published in Japan from Eiji Press...
Harvard Business School Selects Bill Strickland for a Fourth Case Study--"Bill Strickland’s story is amazing. He has acquired international recognition for the fantastic work that the Center does in Pittsburgh and he has a bold vision for addressing some of the fundamental problems created by a broken educational system and unacceptable levels of urban poverty." ..more
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Bill Strickland hopes to persuade 200 cities around the world to replicate his arts, education and job-training program. It's late spring, and Bill Strickland is spending some quiet time in the ceramics studio at the Manchester Craftsmen's Guild, the art and job-training center he founded in Pittsburgh's struggling Manchester area. ... more