Thursday, June 25, 2015

Start, Build, and Run a Business That Improves the World


The Social Entrepreneur's Handbook:

One of the many beauties of social entrepreneurship is that it’s never too late to start. You can be right out of school or working in the highest ranks of corporate America. It doesn’t matter. Social entrepreneurship begins with a noble cause, which turns into a passion, and soon becomes a mission worth dedicating your life to.

 Make the business of society your business

No one knows the business of social entrepreneurship better than Rupert Scofield. Cofounder and president of FINCA International—a nonprofit microfinancing institution with 7,000 employees serving 750,000 customers in 21 countries—Scofield has been a social entrepreneur for 40 years.

In The Social Entrepreneur’s Handbook, Scofield leads you through the entire process of starting up and running a nonprofit, sharing personal success stories and advice on what not to do—valuable lessons he learned the hard way. The process, while risky, isn’t as difficult as you might think. Practically speaking, you need only two things: an idea and a plan. The former comes from you and you alone. This book supplies the latter.
The Social Entrepreneur’s Handbook illuminates the path to building a successful nonprofit from the ground up. SEH: The one resource you will need to attain your dream of working full-time in service to others—and making a real, measurable difference in the world.


"Good is the Enemy of Great"
This Challenge is Built to Last in 2016 and Beyond—
Leap from 'Good to Great'

Charlie Rose: An hour with Jim Collins on his book Great by Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck--Why Some Thrive Despite Them All"


"The vast majority of companies never become great, precisely because the vast majority become quite good -- and that is their main problem."— Jim Collins

Why Some Companies Make the Leap. . . and Others Don't?  If you're looking to inspire your employees or take a leap forward in your career, this read is indeed a Leaping start from Good to Great.— 'How change doesn't happen'.

Jim Collins book begins with a startling and counterintuitive claim: "Good is the enemy of great." We've become so conditioned to think of performance as something that develops along evolutionary lines -- from poor to good to outstanding -- that it takes a minute to grasp the notion that competence can actually inhibit achievement.

 Based on an extensive five-year study conducted by Collins and a research team he affectionately refers to as "the Chimps," Good to Great defines and analyzes the practices that allowed 11 companies to make the rare transition from solid to outstanding performance.

An interesting thought: “how much would someone have to pay me not to publish Good to Great...”— Jim Collins— The Study; it's impossible for me to imagine not sharing what we've learned.

 Collins's philosophy is summed up in one noteworthy phrase from the book -- "Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice."

We keep looking for change in the wrong places, asking the wrong questions, and making the wrong assumptions. There’s even a tendency to blame Wall Street for the “instant results” approach to change. But the companies that made the jump from good to great did so using Wall Street's own tough metric of success: a sustained leap in their stock-market performance. Wall Street turns out to be just another myth—an excuse for not doing what really works. The data doesn’t lie. 

Management guru Jim Collins asks entrepreneurs to do 10 things that will dramatically improve their companies. What are you waiting for?



 Your life was meant to be poetry!
The way you feel when you just fall in love with someone is the way you’re meant to feel about yourself when you wake up each morning.”— RYWs!

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People and Places: COVID-19

What Super-Spreading Events Teach Us About Protecting Ourselves From COVID-19

smithsonianmag.com From the first embers stirring in China, the SARS-CoV-2 virus has been a stealthy wildfire, flaring with deadly efficiency when it happens upon the opportunistic combination of people and place. In January, after the novel coronavirus had already begun spreading in Wuhan, one patient there infected 14 health care providers.

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Support your immune system this season:

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When we think about keeping our immune system in check, we often think about what we eat and what our system gets exposed to. It's always a good idea to give your immune system the nutrition it needs to function properly as well as do what you can to protect it from harmful bacteria, like washing your hands for at least 20 seconds.

Hunger Action Month:

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Secrets: Productive People podcast

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The Next Web: InSights

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Nest Power Project

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Food Safety:

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Each year, 1 in 6 Americans get sick from eating contaminated food. Visit CDC's food safety site for simple tips to help prevent food poisoning and for information on foodborne disease outbreaks.

Twin Power Grid

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A digital twin of Finland's power grid is going to shake up the future of infrastructure investment.