In researching an article for the Tutor/Mentor Blog, I wanted to emphasize that buildings get completed and social problems get solved when all of those involved are "doing the right thing, at the right time".  I did a Google search to see what I could come up with.

Do the Right Thing is the name of a film by Spike Lee.

This is an article about the film. http://www.chicagoreader.com/TheBlog/archives/2010/12/24/2943652-do-the-right-thing

DoTheRightThing.com is maintained by a global team of social innovators and support from the Breakthrough Innovation Group. When anyone has an idea to improve a company - their service, their activity in the world, their impact, or anything else - they can post the idea on Do The Right Thing.

http://www.dotherightthing.com/index/about

The Do The Right Thing initiative was started in the St. Louis area in 1994. Since then, over a thousand children have been recognized each year. Nominating a child is as easy as going to the nomination form. The form takes only minutes to complete and submit, but will have a long-lasting effect on the child.

http://www.dotherightthingstl.com/

Do the Right Thing is also the title of a book written by Mike Huckabee, a candate for President in the 2008 election.

It's even the title of a White House blog article featuring Michelle Obama

How does this message apply to building teams and solving social problems?

Here's an article showing how a championship hockey team followed a "blueprint" to build a team.

This article, titled A Blueprint for Strategic Leadership, shows how corporations can be more successful. On this page a chart shows four components of strategic leadership.  This chart illustrates a "poorly balanced team".  This chart shows steps for starting a strategic leadership initiative. Note that it talks about a "sequence of initiatives" during five or seven years might halt a crisis.

How can we learn from the ideas of others the wealth of knowledge and experience to mobilize people and resources who "do the right thing" for many years, and in many places, so the result is that youth born in high poverth are starting jobs and careers by their mid 20s instead of re-cycling as another generation of poverty?

I've collected more than 200 links to sites that talk about collaboration, process improvement, knowledge management, complex problems, etc.  If people all over the world who want to help end poverty will begin learning from the same reading material, maybe we can begin to apply these ideas in collaboration with each other, and create a convergence of key strategies and a blueprint that shows how to "do the right thing, at the right time, and the right place".

Share your own links and ideas on this topic.