Highlights
How-To Figure Out Your Social Entrepreneurship
"We gain something profound when we stand up for our beliefs, just as part of us dies when we know that something is wrong, yet do nothing....We don't have to tackle every issue, but if we avoid them all, if we remain silent in the face of cruelty, injustice, and...
In Focus
Dear Investment Banker
Dear Investment Banker, If you knew the secret of one more condition to set for your pre-IPO client that could lead to financial success for the client, would you advise on it? Your clients hope so. So I am going to let the cat out of the bag. Look at each client’s...
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Dear Investment Banker
Dear Investment Banker, If you knew the secret of one more condition to set for your pre-IPO client that could lead to financial success for the client, would you advise on it? Your clients hope so. So I am going to let the cat out of the bag. Look at each client’s...
Tim Daly actor and board member of the Creative Coalition on the value of the arts | Vol 1
Quoting Einstein's wisdom, actor Tim Daly brings a refreshing perspective about the importance of creativity in developing new technologies. It's not surprising that this Emmy award winning TV star would offer a smart and informative interview on how the arts impact...
Sectors
Christopher Arnold on Chipotle’s on healthy food sourcing
For the first time we are seeing healthy fast food chains, such as Chipotle, rise up in the stock market. In this interview, PR Director Christopher Arnold describes how Chipotle is impacting the growth of organic family farms by making simple purchasing changes--and...
Opening Pitches from VERGE Accelerate Showcases Innovators
It’s no surprise that this VERGE Accelerate startup pitch competition was the most highly rated keynote session at our VERGE SF 2014 event in October. Who doesn’t love gaining insight into the innovation surging from the entrepreneurial community and the great promise...
Learn
How-To Listen Selfishly To Unselfishly Lead Change
In the course of interviewing dozens of Café Impact social entrepreneurs from multiple continents working on a multiplicity of issues using a myriad of social change methodologies, one bit of advice emerged over and over again: Listen. Learn to be a good listener. I...
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How-To Skill Up Expertly To Scale Up
Change doesn't happen because of good will. It happens when people of good will do tough things. When it comes to social action, it's all too comfortable to think in grandiose terms and bold pronouncements. Words are nice, even necessary, but they are insufficient if...
HIP Paul Herman on how to invest with impact, HIP Investor | v1
Solving needs in the five categories of sustainability, companies end up running more efficient businesses--according to R. Paul Herman, CEO and founder of HIP Investor. Mapping the measures of sustainability to the financial statements, HIP has shown when a company...
Gabe Zichermann aligns core social values through gamification, Noble Profit | Vol 1
In an attention starved world, businesses need creative and fun solutions to attract consumers to spend their most precious commodity, time. According to Gabe Zichermann of the Gamification Summit, the core principals of sustainability can be addressed through the...
How-To Get Your Social Action $#!% Together
My favorite sentence in Peter Dreier's 100 Greatest Americans of the 20th Century is "No struggle for justice succeeds without organization." Seasoned social entrepreneurs and practiced change agents are constantly organizing. Most visibly, societal institutions -...
App Aims to Broaden the ‘eEcosphere’ for Consumers and Business
Can millennials and social networking really lead us to a sustainable future? One startup is betting its business model on “yes.” eEcosphere aims to help users discover, adopt and share actionable ideas to build a more sustainable lifestyle — providing personally...
Inequality
If there is any one fundamental idea standing in the way of a bright future for all, it is the idea of human inequality. The idea that someone is above you or that someone is below you. It is the most confused and most dangerous idea in our existence borne from the...
How-To Instantly Unleash Your Competitive Edge
Social entrepreneurs are regularly (albeit erroneously) revered and romanticized as pioneering visionaries - tenaciously overcoming groupthink, rallying followers to the cause and single-handedly building their social enterprises. The word superhero comes to mind. In...
Gender Equity Can Make America Competitive
In his recent address at West Point, President Obama said the U.S. must always be a leader. And yet, leaders of U.S. corporations, so far, have seemed complacent with a lagging status quo. According to GMI Ratings, the respected provider of global research and risk...
Gil Friend on the power of multi nationals to change the world, Natural Logic | Vol 2
Multi national companies have an effect, not just on the stock exchange, but on businesses globally and our ability to surmount the great issues we face today from the environment to the standard of living of over 1 billion poor people globally. Gil Friend talks about...
How To Work Your Social Change Ass Off
Social change requires tenacity, strength of commitment and old-fashioned hard work. Bluntly, you may not be tough enough. If social and economic justice is your chosen career path, you can't avoid hard work. Social change work demands rigor: rigorous thinking to...
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