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How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas
Now published in more than twenty countries, David Bornstein's How to Change the World has become the bible for social entrepreneurship--in which men and women around the world are finding innovative solutions to a wide variety of social and economic problems. Whether delivering solar energy to Brazilian villagers, expanding work opportunities for disabled people across India, creating a network of home-care agencies to serve poor people with AIDS in South Africa, or bridging the college-access gap in the United States, social entrepreneurs are pioneering problem-solving models that will reshape the 21st century.
How to Change the World provides vivid profiles of many such individuals and what they have in common. The book is an In Search of Excellence for social initiatives, intertwining personal stories, anecdotes, and analysis. Readers will discover how one person can make an astonishing difference in the world.
The case studies in the book include Jody Williams, who won the Nobel Peace Prize for the international campaign against landmines she ran by e-mail from her Vermont home; Roberto Baggio, a 31-year old Brazilian who has established eighty computer schools in the slums of Brazil; and Diana Propper, who has used investment banking techniques to make American corporations responsive to environmental dangers.
The paperback edition will offer a new foreword by the author that shows how the concept of social entrepreneurship has expanded and unfolded over the last few years, including the Gates-Buffetts charitable partnership, the rise of Google, and the increased mainstream coverage of the subject. The book will also update the stories of individual social entrepreneurs that appeared in the cloth edition.
How to Change the World provides vivid profiles of many such individuals and what they have in common. The book is an In Search of Excellence for social initiatives, intertwining personal stories, anecdotes, and analysis. Readers will discover how one person can make an astonishing difference in the world.
The case studies in the book include Jody Williams, who won the Nobel Peace Prize for the international campaign against landmines she ran by e-mail from her Vermont home; Roberto Baggio, a 31-year old Brazilian who has established eighty computer schools in the slums of Brazil; and Diana Propper, who has used investment banking techniques to make American corporations responsive to environmental dangers.
The paperback edition will offer a new foreword by the author that shows how the concept of social entrepreneurship has expanded and unfolded over the last few years, including the Gates-Buffetts charitable partnership, the rise of Google, and the increased mainstream coverage of the subject. The book will also update the stories of individual social entrepreneurs that appeared in the cloth edition.
368 pages, Paperback
First published June 8, 2013
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David Bornstein
18 books26 followersDavid Bornstein specializes in writing about social innovation. He is the author of The Price of a Dream and How to Change the World, which has been published in 20 languages. His articles have appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, the New York Times, and many other publications globally. He co-wrote the PBS documentary "To Our Credit." He is the founder of Dowser.org, a Web site devoted to uncovering stories of change. He lives in New York City.
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March 14, 2011
I remember feeling very self-conscious whenever I read or carried this book around in public. Friends, whenever they see you carrying a book, will always ask "What are you reading?" I'd sheepishly show them the cover, anticipating what I know was coming next.. An "Emily, are you really trying to change the world?" or "Oh Em, you know you can't save the world, right?"
Had I read Novogratz by then, I would have retorted with a "Probably not, but I'd be happy enough if I could manage to give it a nudge." But I haven't read 'The Blue Sweater' by then, so I usually just smiled back and kept quiet.
Anyway, on to my review..
David Bornstein's "How to Change the World" traces the beginnings of the Ashoka Foundation, starting with the vision of its founder, Bill Drayton. Through a series of case studies on the different Ashoka fellows, Bornstein outlines and illustrates Drayton's principles of how Social Entrepreneurs can change the world.
I was intrigued by the concept of a Social Entrepreneur. I've always wanted to figure out the best way that I can merge advertising/marketing and advocacy. In the Social Entrepreneur, I saw that Drayton has found a way to merge business principles and social change. I wanted to know how he did it.
So I absolutely loved the fact that Drayton is a practical sort of man. As with anyone with a strong advocacy, he values passion and empathy in people. But at the same time, he acknowledges that it takes a certain kind of personality, skills and thinking to be able to make a real difference. He specialized in sifting through people with good hearts to separate the theorists from the real change agents. The "particular type of actor who propels social change." And this book covers everything from how to spot those people, how to support them, how to breed a whole generation of them, and a blueprint of how to replicate successful models all over the world.
Bornstein puts it this way:
"Over the past century, researchers have studied business entrepreneurs extensively..
In contrast, social entrepreneurs have received little attention. Historically, they have been cast as humanitarians or saints, and stories of their work have been passed down more in the form of children's tales than case studies. While the stories may inspire, they fail to make social entrepreneurs' methods comprehensible. One can analyze an entrepreneur, but how does one analyze a saint?"
And realizing this, Bornstein and Drayton gave us the Ashoka Foundation and "How to Change the World" so we have a practical map to change instead of another lovely fable.
Had I read Novogratz by then, I would have retorted with a "Probably not, but I'd be happy enough if I could manage to give it a nudge." But I haven't read 'The Blue Sweater' by then, so I usually just smiled back and kept quiet.
Anyway, on to my review..
David Bornstein's "How to Change the World" traces the beginnings of the Ashoka Foundation, starting with the vision of its founder, Bill Drayton. Through a series of case studies on the different Ashoka fellows, Bornstein outlines and illustrates Drayton's principles of how Social Entrepreneurs can change the world.
I was intrigued by the concept of a Social Entrepreneur. I've always wanted to figure out the best way that I can merge advertising/marketing and advocacy. In the Social Entrepreneur, I saw that Drayton has found a way to merge business principles and social change. I wanted to know how he did it.
So I absolutely loved the fact that Drayton is a practical sort of man. As with anyone with a strong advocacy, he values passion and empathy in people. But at the same time, he acknowledges that it takes a certain kind of personality, skills and thinking to be able to make a real difference. He specialized in sifting through people with good hearts to separate the theorists from the real change agents. The "particular type of actor who propels social change." And this book covers everything from how to spot those people, how to support them, how to breed a whole generation of them, and a blueprint of how to replicate successful models all over the world.
Bornstein puts it this way:
"Over the past century, researchers have studied business entrepreneurs extensively..
In contrast, social entrepreneurs have received little attention. Historically, they have been cast as humanitarians or saints, and stories of their work have been passed down more in the form of children's tales than case studies. While the stories may inspire, they fail to make social entrepreneurs' methods comprehensible. One can analyze an entrepreneur, but how does one analyze a saint?"
And realizing this, Bornstein and Drayton gave us the Ashoka Foundation and "How to Change the World" so we have a practical map to change instead of another lovely fable.
August 14, 2019
This book is a highly revealing one, but not necessarily in the way that the author of this book likely intends. When I started to read this book I got angry so I had to let it lie low for a few days until I could read it in a calmer mood. Ultimately, I did learn from this book so it is not one I feel I could view as one of the worst books ever. But what I learned from the book put me in stark opposition to the author and his intents and demonstrated the corruption of the social entrepreneurship that we see among tech billionaires that has shown itself in corrupt lefist bias on a part of companies like Google and Amazon, among many others. This book actively encourages people to seek to start businesses in order to help agitate for harmful social change, and this book features a lot of looks at people with false messianic worldviews that involve corrupt political dealings around the world in places like India and Brazil and the United States. The NYT shows its typical idiocy by calling this book a bible in the field, but those who actually know something about the Bible will view this book far more negatively.
This book is about 300 pages long and is divided into just more than 20 chapters. The preface begins this book with some messianic ideas that social entrepreneurs attempt to put into place. After that the author includes a chapter on restless people (1) and another one on planting trees (2). There is a chapter on rural electrification in Brazil (3) and the search for subsidies, and one on Florence Nightingale's efforts (4) in the Crimean War. There is a chapter on Bill Drayton's work in the United States (5) as a social entrepreneur as well as a discussion on the building of Ashoka (6). Then there is a discussion about child protection in India (7), as well as the role of a social entrepreneur in the author's view (8) and a discussion of orphanages in Hungary (9) and people being demon-possessed by leftist ideologies (10). There are chapters on health care in Brazil (11), the search for social excellence (12), the desire to get mediocre poor people in the US to do more college (13), new opportunities and challenges (14), the care for AIDS patients in South Africa (15), four practices of innovative organizations (16), disability rights in India (17), six qualities of successful social entrepreneurs (18), concerns about "morality" and "capacity" (19), blueprint copying, and the author's hopes for the emergence of a social sector, after which the book concludes with an epilogue, afterword, notes, selected readings, and a resource guide.
Ultimately, the failure of this book is a failure in terms of the worldview of its author as well as the sort of people who would be attracted to this book. Despite all of the evidence going back hundreds of years about the failure of leftist messianic crusades to save the world and the fact that they tended to create a hell on earth instead of a heaven on earth, the author seems to believe that social entrepreneurs can solve problems without making them worse. There are all kinds of dreams about what can be done for various privileged subaltern groups without thinking of how much things cost and who is going to be expected to pay for them. If the book is not anti-business, it certainly has a business model that is more crony capitalism than anything that will ultimately bring better life to people even if we cannot expect entrepreneurs of any kind to rid the world of the evil that lies within the heart of human beings. This is a book that fails on fundamental theological reasons for failing to recognize the extent of evil within human nature that is present within reformers as much as anyone else, and on those grounds all it presents is noble ideals that will inevitably turn dark and evil once someone tries to put them into practice through the coercive power of the state.
This book is about 300 pages long and is divided into just more than 20 chapters. The preface begins this book with some messianic ideas that social entrepreneurs attempt to put into place. After that the author includes a chapter on restless people (1) and another one on planting trees (2). There is a chapter on rural electrification in Brazil (3) and the search for subsidies, and one on Florence Nightingale's efforts (4) in the Crimean War. There is a chapter on Bill Drayton's work in the United States (5) as a social entrepreneur as well as a discussion on the building of Ashoka (6). Then there is a discussion about child protection in India (7), as well as the role of a social entrepreneur in the author's view (8) and a discussion of orphanages in Hungary (9) and people being demon-possessed by leftist ideologies (10). There are chapters on health care in Brazil (11), the search for social excellence (12), the desire to get mediocre poor people in the US to do more college (13), new opportunities and challenges (14), the care for AIDS patients in South Africa (15), four practices of innovative organizations (16), disability rights in India (17), six qualities of successful social entrepreneurs (18), concerns about "morality" and "capacity" (19), blueprint copying, and the author's hopes for the emergence of a social sector, after which the book concludes with an epilogue, afterword, notes, selected readings, and a resource guide.
Ultimately, the failure of this book is a failure in terms of the worldview of its author as well as the sort of people who would be attracted to this book. Despite all of the evidence going back hundreds of years about the failure of leftist messianic crusades to save the world and the fact that they tended to create a hell on earth instead of a heaven on earth, the author seems to believe that social entrepreneurs can solve problems without making them worse. There are all kinds of dreams about what can be done for various privileged subaltern groups without thinking of how much things cost and who is going to be expected to pay for them. If the book is not anti-business, it certainly has a business model that is more crony capitalism than anything that will ultimately bring better life to people even if we cannot expect entrepreneurs of any kind to rid the world of the evil that lies within the heart of human beings. This is a book that fails on fundamental theological reasons for failing to recognize the extent of evil within human nature that is present within reformers as much as anyone else, and on those grounds all it presents is noble ideals that will inevitably turn dark and evil once someone tries to put them into practice through the coercive power of the state.
August 14, 2017
كتاب مُلهم ومهم. أنصح به.
July 30, 2016
• I loved this book because it was about real-life people who are doing remarkable things in the world…it is an inspiration for me about what’s possible. Some specific things I learned are that:
o Often Government/NGO ideas of what people need are different than people’s ideas of what they need, so ask the people what they actually need and address that (Fabio Rosa)
o Accountability is important on the receiving side too: i.e. when mothers failed to keep their end of the bargain, Renascer released them.
o Its important to continually remind people of their absolute importance to the organization.
o Professionals are needed for special cases, but not for the front lines…train people who were previously untapped resources.
o Poverty is not a lack of money, it’s a lack of a sense of meaning.
o Receiving a pro-bono audit and maintaining financial transparency in newsletters is invaluable.
o One innovative program I liked was Renescer matching poor families with middle class families to sort of “adopt” them for 6 months to give them nutritional and food supplements.
o Charging for services may be important: i.e. for Collegesummit: if schools pay for the service, they’re likely to complain if they’re not getting what they want (a great indicator), if it’s free, they will be too embarrassed to complain.
o Sustainable expansion: Ashoka wouldn’t expand until it had enough funds to cover itself for 3 years in that new country…similarily Aravind wouldn’t buy a new hospital until it had all the money saved up to build it (i.e. no loans).
o Qualities of Social Entrepreneurs:
• Willingness to self-correct, not depending on anyone else to change course.
• Willingness to share credit
• Willingnes to break free of established structures
• Willingness to cross disciplinary boundaries
• Willingness to work quietly: sometimes for 10 years before their ideas take off
• Strong ethical impetus
• Their motivation usually comes from a strong person or event in their life:
• I.e. an amazing grandfather or a horrible event where they were “branded for life” (Bangladesh’s famine, Vera Cordero seeing the kids in the hospital go right back to the favelas)
People arrive at a point in their lives where they realize they can make a difference, and from there they’re launched into action.
o Often Government/NGO ideas of what people need are different than people’s ideas of what they need, so ask the people what they actually need and address that (Fabio Rosa)
o Accountability is important on the receiving side too: i.e. when mothers failed to keep their end of the bargain, Renascer released them.
o Its important to continually remind people of their absolute importance to the organization.
o Professionals are needed for special cases, but not for the front lines…train people who were previously untapped resources.
o Poverty is not a lack of money, it’s a lack of a sense of meaning.
o Receiving a pro-bono audit and maintaining financial transparency in newsletters is invaluable.
o One innovative program I liked was Renescer matching poor families with middle class families to sort of “adopt” them for 6 months to give them nutritional and food supplements.
o Charging for services may be important: i.e. for Collegesummit: if schools pay for the service, they’re likely to complain if they’re not getting what they want (a great indicator), if it’s free, they will be too embarrassed to complain.
o Sustainable expansion: Ashoka wouldn’t expand until it had enough funds to cover itself for 3 years in that new country…similarily Aravind wouldn’t buy a new hospital until it had all the money saved up to build it (i.e. no loans).
o Qualities of Social Entrepreneurs:
• Willingness to self-correct, not depending on anyone else to change course.
• Willingness to share credit
• Willingnes to break free of established structures
• Willingness to cross disciplinary boundaries
• Willingness to work quietly: sometimes for 10 years before their ideas take off
• Strong ethical impetus
• Their motivation usually comes from a strong person or event in their life:
• I.e. an amazing grandfather or a horrible event where they were “branded for life” (Bangladesh’s famine, Vera Cordero seeing the kids in the hospital go right back to the favelas)
People arrive at a point in their lives where they realize they can make a difference, and from there they’re launched into action.
December 8, 2016
This book is like a company catalog for Ashoka. The project examples I read about were interesting and inspiring. As the author points out, e.g. regarding Mary Lasker, "social entrepreneurs" can do more harm than good, so what matters is doing what works to help people.
Personal rant:
I understand that "social entrepreneur" is a different thing from "entrepreneur" and that there is a presumably good intention behind it, but it is unnecessarily confusing. "Entrepreneur" should mean what it means as defined in the dictionary (someone risking money to start a business). To describe people like Florence Nightingale, we can use words like "visionary," "leader," "innovator," "reformer," etc. We have a rich language.
I don't like the term "social entrepreneur" because it gets people talking about how you have to find the "business model" before you can change anything, and that's a load of hogwash. The examples in the book, from Florence Nightingale onwards, were mostly NOT running for-profit businesses. Polio vaccine, ORS, sewers, and on and on, did NOT come from for-profit businesses. Greed is not a necessary or sufficient motivator for producing good in the world. In fact, it produces a lot of evil.
Another rationale for "social entrepreneur" is that non-profits should use "businesslike techniques." But it's not clear what that means either. Many businesses are horribly run. Supposedly brilliant management techniques come and go like fashion trends. Again, what matters is producing good results. Being "businesslike" is not necessary or sufficient for being effective.
Personal rant:
I understand that "social entrepreneur" is a different thing from "entrepreneur" and that there is a presumably good intention behind it, but it is unnecessarily confusing. "Entrepreneur" should mean what it means as defined in the dictionary (someone risking money to start a business). To describe people like Florence Nightingale, we can use words like "visionary," "leader," "innovator," "reformer," etc. We have a rich language.
I don't like the term "social entrepreneur" because it gets people talking about how you have to find the "business model" before you can change anything, and that's a load of hogwash. The examples in the book, from Florence Nightingale onwards, were mostly NOT running for-profit businesses. Polio vaccine, ORS, sewers, and on and on, did NOT come from for-profit businesses. Greed is not a necessary or sufficient motivator for producing good in the world. In fact, it produces a lot of evil.
Another rationale for "social entrepreneur" is that non-profits should use "businesslike techniques." But it's not clear what that means either. Many businesses are horribly run. Supposedly brilliant management techniques come and go like fashion trends. Again, what matters is producing good results. Being "businesslike" is not necessary or sufficient for being effective.
March 22, 2019
A wonderful book which opened my eyes to so many things. Here are my favorite quotes : https://youtu.be/zn5e6yziPFQ
February 23, 2015
This should've been an inspirational and motivating read, but for me it missed the mark.
Bornstein's book is really a PR product of the Ashoka Fellows program and its founder, Bill Drayton. That's not to detract from its contribution, but to position the book and indirectly hint at some of Bornstein's limitations in virtue of writing essentially a biography of the various Fellows he's interviewed and whose work he's followed.
In the current era of ubiquitous randomized controlled trials (RCTs), evaluation matters and simply stating that an individual has made an impact (regardless of the evaluation tools Ashoka employs) does not an impact make. This is where social entrepreneurs get things wrong - yes, perhaps person X in country Y has transformed the location's education sector, but would these changes have occurred independent of X? Ashoka overwhelmingly declares no, but it's in their interest to not perform rigorous counterfactual analyses to prove value-add.
The individuals Bornstein interviews are charismatic, industrious, and other-minded. They come from agriculture, energy, education, healthcare, etc. and what unites them is an entrepreneurial spirit coupled with a social focus.
My problem was I simply got bored. I didn't learn anything radically new (aside from a bio sketch of Drayton who is extraordinary) and the altruist protagonists started bleeding into one another.
I'd recommend this if you're unfamiliar with the Ashoka program and what social entrepreneurs do. Otherwise this is trodden territory.
Bornstein's book is really a PR product of the Ashoka Fellows program and its founder, Bill Drayton. That's not to detract from its contribution, but to position the book and indirectly hint at some of Bornstein's limitations in virtue of writing essentially a biography of the various Fellows he's interviewed and whose work he's followed.
In the current era of ubiquitous randomized controlled trials (RCTs), evaluation matters and simply stating that an individual has made an impact (regardless of the evaluation tools Ashoka employs) does not an impact make. This is where social entrepreneurs get things wrong - yes, perhaps person X in country Y has transformed the location's education sector, but would these changes have occurred independent of X? Ashoka overwhelmingly declares no, but it's in their interest to not perform rigorous counterfactual analyses to prove value-add.
The individuals Bornstein interviews are charismatic, industrious, and other-minded. They come from agriculture, energy, education, healthcare, etc. and what unites them is an entrepreneurial spirit coupled with a social focus.
My problem was I simply got bored. I didn't learn anything radically new (aside from a bio sketch of Drayton who is extraordinary) and the altruist protagonists started bleeding into one another.
I'd recommend this if you're unfamiliar with the Ashoka program and what social entrepreneurs do. Otherwise this is trodden territory.
May 5, 2010
It is not often I read a book that is basically a waste of time, but this book by David Bornstein is one of them. I picked it up with the hopes of promise of something useful, but I was left with a collection of poorly written stories about "social entrepreneurs". Instead of writing about them and explaining their accomplishments in more practical terms, Bornstein leaves us with a history lesson.
Buy this book if you want a fairly lengthy book on your shelf with an impressive title. Don't buy it for content.
Buy this book if you want a fairly lengthy book on your shelf with an impressive title. Don't buy it for content.
January 1, 2009
This is a very interesting book that shows the importance of the "citizen sector" and the ideas and work of social entrepreneurs. The government and private sector cannot take care of all the needs in the world, so it is inspiring to see people stepping up to make a difference by taking their ideas and working relentlessly to make them happen. This book gives several examples of people in the world working hard to change societies for the better while encouraging all of us to be "changemakers" (see www.changemakers.net). A successful social entrepreneur is: willing to be corrected, willing to share the credit, willing to break free of established structures, willing to cross disciplinary boundaries, willing to work quietly, and has a strong ethical impetus.
October 4, 2018
it was more of an introductory to social entrepreneurship to the public governments, schools etc. Rather than the entrepreneurs themselves.
I disliked the constant mention of other big organizations or 'microfiance' as if it's the only option or the best example. ( although he clarified that it has its downside as well at some point).
the resources he used or mentioned at the end of the book were extremely helpful.
overall a good book and informative but not concrete or practical 1, 2, 3 guide.
I disliked the constant mention of other big organizations or 'microfiance' as if it's the only option or the best example. ( although he clarified that it has its downside as well at some point).
the resources he used or mentioned at the end of the book were extremely helpful.
overall a good book and informative but not concrete or practical 1, 2, 3 guide.
July 18, 2013
"A pseudo-inspirational/motivational self-help book from a rich American organization seeking to promote public leadership so that proles are treated with temporary cures and capitalism can keep working smoothly."
December 29, 2024
Really great, inspiring book about what good people are doing in the world to make it better.
I wish I could rate it higher, but there were soooo many details. I found my wandering and wish this could have been condemned by 100 pages or so.
But kudos to all the wonderful people out there changing the world! You all are great!
I wish I could rate it higher, but there were soooo many details. I found my wandering and wish this could have been condemned by 100 pages or so.
But kudos to all the wonderful people out there changing the world! You all are great!
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April 17, 2025I don't want "power(electricity, hierarchy, abuse), " or "change(money)". If you want difference then you need to stop being emotions you've heard of. I don't want "good". I want to separate myself from the language I learned.
If you want to defeat Trump you need to start setting sexual boundaries as a party and become the national process party. Trump has declared gold as his power anchor. To destabilize him you need to desexualize gold, earrings, silver, hearts, and end unconditional support. The flag needs to be desexualized and processed. Our tribal and culture fights need to come to an end.
The only winner is the occult if we don't stop fighting and start processing our differences. We shouldn't be buying status, sex, or vibes with ourselves and money. If someone is traumatized we shouldn't love them, we should help them process their grief. As a disabled person I am allergic to objectification. We have lived in cults for so long fighting over resources and power. It's time to reassociate the world to be non sexual. Reject those that want "in".
Help others process the fact that maybe they let the wrong person in and now they hurt. In my city Blue is the color of the blue devils. In schools we are taught glory and fighting others. Mascots need to be non sexual. We don't need everyone to go all in. Education should be a process to desexualize the past and create a future that is sustainable. When we sexualize ourselves with pretties, cute things, sex, anchors of many kinds(sports), we objectify everything. Nothing is real anymore. We are all just consuming some assholes past shit. Rape, slavery, and hierarchy keep us abused and tied to the past.
Native Americans lost their land, process, and were forcibly moved then someone came along and dicked it all. They have the worst process because they own casinos and firework production which actively buries their trauma under the cult. Things aren't sexual, we are just confused because we can't communicate non sexually because every word has been sexualized and refers to something that has already happened. We are avatars of our past and we must live in this reality until we stop prosecuting others and help them become whole and autonomous. Music is so full of people telling us their problems and sexualizing reality. We don't need a main stream culture. We need no culture.
Drug users and prisoners and caught up against the unrelenting prosecution of others. Please set boundaries for me and all the others that want to live free. We shouldn't be serving our countries and businesses openly and fighting with our sacred sexuality. You've already consumed the shit you're prosecuting with the automatic synchronization. Holidays, flags, hearts, jewelry, stars, and other items we've been automatically programmed to open up to allows cross pollination. We need to reject the "american" way of life. These words will no doubt trigger you.
Please stop unconditionally supporting others and veterans. I understand veterans have been hurt, traumatized, abused, and suffer mental health problems but loving them is just rubbing shit in the wound. They served their country but their country isn't helping them. We are constantly at war with others creating a tribal cult. Desexualize your clothing, sports, academics, and reality. Everyone is crazy and just reference different things that have happened to them with so many different meanings that it is impossible to communicate. Trump is a charlatan. He uses words that people have anchored themselves to create an emotional response and trigger them.
Trump is creating a "golden" era where gold is king. We shouldn't be living in private kingdoms. When Trump announced the gold card for immigrating gold got activated and is "most" sex right now. Everyone at the bar and grocery stores are dumping their shit on gold and sexualizing it. I see so many people wearing gold now and shitting on my process to get closure by some navy vets that did voodoo on me and put something energetic into my chest. I've been working to get it out but without boundaries the virus is getting through. We live in a society that says everyone can be king and act out the associative problems the king had.
Kings eat all the process of their country and are slaves to it. Reprocess anything to do with playing cards and anything related to "trump" suit. As a country we have been electing the most sexual person to be our president. Forget using words to describe yourself. Use gestures and grunts to summarize yourself. Don't let anyone in. Obama(hiroshima anyone?) said that we have become too tribal, the manufacturing of our things has been out of our country and in sweat shops. We're abused by those in authority over and over.
We shouldn't be looking up to those in authority and celebrities to tell us how to live our lives. Those that take on leadership roles have the most to process because they consume everything. Then it's fighting over how to shape yourself in order to survive. That's why so many people buy vibes. They know there is no hope(a cemetery and womens mental health house in my city) so they buy earrings and just vibe to get sex. So many women just want a guy with "good" vibes(mcdonalds?) and unconditional support(occult).
Animals are abused, corn(gold/Monsanto) is in everything, and our world is dying. The "o" is super sexualized because of romance languages which sexualizes everything and represses women. I don't like sports because I don't like cults. They are so confused because they guzzle associatives in mass consumption and then must unconditionally support it. the Ducks(O and green/yellow) are the sports colors of Oregon(The gold rush anyone?). So many women were forced into prostitution and native Americans were forced off their land. I went to get my education there graduating top of my class and realized that everyone was crazy.
I am the reason Bernie didn't get elected for using a star in his logo. Hillary was such a bitch for going up against him, she is connected to so much corruption(A 12yr old rape victim). We had a chance and lost it, now Trump is in "power" and running the world like a reality tv program. I think it's important to be transparent so people can process. Stop anchoring to colors, the donkey, flag, stars, hearts, jewelry, etc. Meaning has to be fluid, if something always means the same thing then it rips as reality and prevents closure.
Something happened to me, I was at a festival and it felt like someone put a fishing line into my chest and then sent a heap of garbage into it. I don't know if I am the only person to experience this but my personal bubble exploded and I am about the size of a city block now. I've been working on getting closure and am desperately allergic to objectification and the occult. You can't just anchor on something. If this can happen to me then it can happen to someone else, I think this is what is wrong with our veterans. Voodoo is a donut but also part of the occults arsenal. I wanted Bernie to win but if he did and sexualized stars it would have been the end of me so I processed a lot and he lost. There was a gas station Texaco with a star one block from me.
I feel incredible pain in my chest from objectification. Desexualize chest. We aren't sexual beings, we're just told that we are because everything is so sexual. When we are born we consume the process of the city, hospital, numbers, colors, and everything the tribe(cult) has accumulated. We are victims(slaves) of our own process and past. The world doesn't need love, it needs to be told no to it's conditioning. Stop supporting Pride, it just sexualizes us and culture jams. The christians don't like it because they hold the rainbow in high regard.
Say no to Co-exist, so no to live and let live. We are all connected and are going to drown if we don't start letting things go and itching. You notice sometimes you itch, this means something, it is the natural process of the human separating itself from something else. Out process Trump and you will have the next election. But you must alert everybody on your team to do the same. This shouldn't be a fight, it should be a process. The more you process the more you can energetically communicate without the need for words. If you have processed a word say it weird to avoid a connection. People are always trying to get in but they must go out(the spiral).
Money shouldn't be sexualized and you shouldn't be able to buy sexualized stuff with it. The rich are getting richer, but they are a victim to their process too. If, like Trump, your whole life is gold then you become so enslaved to the process that it kills your inner spirit. Trump is a victim, I know he's done wrong, we all have. He was just doing what he was compelled to do because of his triggers, past, and what he opened himself up to. Stop prosecuting. Just process. How does it make you feel?
If someone is glowing/shining they have sexualized themselves. Bug eye them in a repulse manner, this works on children too. They will start emulating and process, the reason kids are so sexualized these days is because they are living in a hyper sexualized world. The playground is sexy, the parks are sexy and also all have a support our troops monument, star, and flag.
I'd like somewhere to look that isn't sexualized. A picture of someone clasping their hands respectfully in front of them, behind them, behind their head, and in a prayer like fashion(think namaste but desexualize the flower). There is literally nowhere to look that means closed. This picture should be crucial to the education process, business, and city streets. It's so annoying trying to close yourself and get those awkward emotions processed when everything says open yourself/sex. I can send you my prototype if you think it would help. I've been actively desexualizing my reality and processing any sexual vibes for 11 years now and have a strong energetic frequency that is clear(meth nickname). It's kinda like how the blockchain and bitcoin work.
I've processed almost my entire life over again so that I don't get triggered and can live in the moment helping others overcome their objectification. I can only do so much, I need help. Look around at others when in public and repel those that are objectifying. Nike has a strong cult following and is all about sports. The 80's and 90's were the birth of a new era where the psychology and advertising took hold and started trying to control people by creating associations to their product. The computer and television separates us from each other, so many people now live in their private worlds consuming the crap that our society is producing.
Learn how to communicate without opening yourself. process your clothing so that it doesn't change how you feel about yourself. I think of words and process them, I think of where I bought something and process it back there, I think of other things it could be associated with and process it, I think of streets and send the process to the address. Anything I have a connection to I can close, I just need to process. Sometimes it can take a long time to process something and it keeps coming back but I gently say no and close.
Process all things, we can live in a shared reality and feel safe around each other again when we feel seen and we don't have to fight over our personal cult reality. People also say what they see, that has to be processed. Oh how cute(nothing is cute it's just a way to say it's sexualized to them). Reject compliments, they are impositions that come to define us if we accept them. They're like, this is similar to something else I've seen and you can help them process that by stopping being tribal like lunatics and let the nameless version of yourself out of it's cage. Slave names and numbers, that's what we are. Whenever someone sees your social security card and it's numbers they dump all the process onto you making you eat shit.
"I" help others overcome their past problems by out processing the occult, but I need help. Hook up culture is all the rage, free your sexuality, be wild. This isn't what we need to cure ourselves of our problems. Please separate your "self" from this message and words. It is difficult to communicate.
stop the thumbs up culture. Nobody truly knows "you" and can vouch for you. Block people from hooking up at bars, set boundaries everywhere, especially public.
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If you want to defeat Trump you need to start setting sexual boundaries as a party and become the national process party. Trump has declared gold as his power anchor. To destabilize him you need to desexualize gold, earrings, silver, hearts, and end unconditional support. The flag needs to be desexualized and processed. Our tribal and culture fights need to come to an end.
The only winner is the occult if we don't stop fighting and start processing our differences. We shouldn't be buying status, sex, or vibes with ourselves and money. If someone is traumatized we shouldn't love them, we should help them process their grief. As a disabled person I am allergic to objectification. We have lived in cults for so long fighting over resources and power. It's time to reassociate the world to be non sexual. Reject those that want "in".
Help others process the fact that maybe they let the wrong person in and now they hurt. In my city Blue is the color of the blue devils. In schools we are taught glory and fighting others. Mascots need to be non sexual. We don't need everyone to go all in. Education should be a process to desexualize the past and create a future that is sustainable. When we sexualize ourselves with pretties, cute things, sex, anchors of many kinds(sports), we objectify everything. Nothing is real anymore. We are all just consuming some assholes past shit. Rape, slavery, and hierarchy keep us abused and tied to the past.
Native Americans lost their land, process, and were forcibly moved then someone came along and dicked it all. They have the worst process because they own casinos and firework production which actively buries their trauma under the cult. Things aren't sexual, we are just confused because we can't communicate non sexually because every word has been sexualized and refers to something that has already happened. We are avatars of our past and we must live in this reality until we stop prosecuting others and help them become whole and autonomous. Music is so full of people telling us their problems and sexualizing reality. We don't need a main stream culture. We need no culture.
Drug users and prisoners and caught up against the unrelenting prosecution of others. Please set boundaries for me and all the others that want to live free. We shouldn't be serving our countries and businesses openly and fighting with our sacred sexuality. You've already consumed the shit you're prosecuting with the automatic synchronization. Holidays, flags, hearts, jewelry, stars, and other items we've been automatically programmed to open up to allows cross pollination. We need to reject the "american" way of life. These words will no doubt trigger you.
Please stop unconditionally supporting others and veterans. I understand veterans have been hurt, traumatized, abused, and suffer mental health problems but loving them is just rubbing shit in the wound. They served their country but their country isn't helping them. We are constantly at war with others creating a tribal cult. Desexualize your clothing, sports, academics, and reality. Everyone is crazy and just reference different things that have happened to them with so many different meanings that it is impossible to communicate. Trump is a charlatan. He uses words that people have anchored themselves to create an emotional response and trigger them.
Trump is creating a "golden" era where gold is king. We shouldn't be living in private kingdoms. When Trump announced the gold card for immigrating gold got activated and is "most" sex right now. Everyone at the bar and grocery stores are dumping their shit on gold and sexualizing it. I see so many people wearing gold now and shitting on my process to get closure by some navy vets that did voodoo on me and put something energetic into my chest. I've been working to get it out but without boundaries the virus is getting through. We live in a society that says everyone can be king and act out the associative problems the king had.
Kings eat all the process of their country and are slaves to it. Reprocess anything to do with playing cards and anything related to "trump" suit. As a country we have been electing the most sexual person to be our president. Forget using words to describe yourself. Use gestures and grunts to summarize yourself. Don't let anyone in. Obama(hiroshima anyone?) said that we have become too tribal, the manufacturing of our things has been out of our country and in sweat shops. We're abused by those in authority over and over.
We shouldn't be looking up to those in authority and celebrities to tell us how to live our lives. Those that take on leadership roles have the most to process because they consume everything. Then it's fighting over how to shape yourself in order to survive. That's why so many people buy vibes. They know there is no hope(a cemetery and womens mental health house in my city) so they buy earrings and just vibe to get sex. So many women just want a guy with "good" vibes(mcdonalds?) and unconditional support(occult).
Animals are abused, corn(gold/Monsanto) is in everything, and our world is dying. The "o" is super sexualized because of romance languages which sexualizes everything and represses women. I don't like sports because I don't like cults. They are so confused because they guzzle associatives in mass consumption and then must unconditionally support it. the Ducks(O and green/yellow) are the sports colors of Oregon(The gold rush anyone?). So many women were forced into prostitution and native Americans were forced off their land. I went to get my education there graduating top of my class and realized that everyone was crazy.
I am the reason Bernie didn't get elected for using a star in his logo. Hillary was such a bitch for going up against him, she is connected to so much corruption(A 12yr old rape victim). We had a chance and lost it, now Trump is in "power" and running the world like a reality tv program. I think it's important to be transparent so people can process. Stop anchoring to colors, the donkey, flag, stars, hearts, jewelry, etc. Meaning has to be fluid, if something always means the same thing then it rips as reality and prevents closure.
Something happened to me, I was at a festival and it felt like someone put a fishing line into my chest and then sent a heap of garbage into it. I don't know if I am the only person to experience this but my personal bubble exploded and I am about the size of a city block now. I've been working on getting closure and am desperately allergic to objectification and the occult. You can't just anchor on something. If this can happen to me then it can happen to someone else, I think this is what is wrong with our veterans. Voodoo is a donut but also part of the occults arsenal. I wanted Bernie to win but if he did and sexualized stars it would have been the end of me so I processed a lot and he lost. There was a gas station Texaco with a star one block from me.
I feel incredible pain in my chest from objectification. Desexualize chest. We aren't sexual beings, we're just told that we are because everything is so sexual. When we are born we consume the process of the city, hospital, numbers, colors, and everything the tribe(cult) has accumulated. We are victims(slaves) of our own process and past. The world doesn't need love, it needs to be told no to it's conditioning. Stop supporting Pride, it just sexualizes us and culture jams. The christians don't like it because they hold the rainbow in high regard.
Say no to Co-exist, so no to live and let live. We are all connected and are going to drown if we don't start letting things go and itching. You notice sometimes you itch, this means something, it is the natural process of the human separating itself from something else. Out process Trump and you will have the next election. But you must alert everybody on your team to do the same. This shouldn't be a fight, it should be a process. The more you process the more you can energetically communicate without the need for words. If you have processed a word say it weird to avoid a connection. People are always trying to get in but they must go out(the spiral).
Money shouldn't be sexualized and you shouldn't be able to buy sexualized stuff with it. The rich are getting richer, but they are a victim to their process too. If, like Trump, your whole life is gold then you become so enslaved to the process that it kills your inner spirit. Trump is a victim, I know he's done wrong, we all have. He was just doing what he was compelled to do because of his triggers, past, and what he opened himself up to. Stop prosecuting. Just process. How does it make you feel?
If someone is glowing/shining they have sexualized themselves. Bug eye them in a repulse manner, this works on children too. They will start emulating and process, the reason kids are so sexualized these days is because they are living in a hyper sexualized world. The playground is sexy, the parks are sexy and also all have a support our troops monument, star, and flag.
I'd like somewhere to look that isn't sexualized. A picture of someone clasping their hands respectfully in front of them, behind them, behind their head, and in a prayer like fashion(think namaste but desexualize the flower). There is literally nowhere to look that means closed. This picture should be crucial to the education process, business, and city streets. It's so annoying trying to close yourself and get those awkward emotions processed when everything says open yourself/sex. I can send you my prototype if you think it would help. I've been actively desexualizing my reality and processing any sexual vibes for 11 years now and have a strong energetic frequency that is clear(meth nickname). It's kinda like how the blockchain and bitcoin work.
I've processed almost my entire life over again so that I don't get triggered and can live in the moment helping others overcome their objectification. I can only do so much, I need help. Look around at others when in public and repel those that are objectifying. Nike has a strong cult following and is all about sports. The 80's and 90's were the birth of a new era where the psychology and advertising took hold and started trying to control people by creating associations to their product. The computer and television separates us from each other, so many people now live in their private worlds consuming the crap that our society is producing.
Learn how to communicate without opening yourself. process your clothing so that it doesn't change how you feel about yourself. I think of words and process them, I think of where I bought something and process it back there, I think of other things it could be associated with and process it, I think of streets and send the process to the address. Anything I have a connection to I can close, I just need to process. Sometimes it can take a long time to process something and it keeps coming back but I gently say no and close.
Process all things, we can live in a shared reality and feel safe around each other again when we feel seen and we don't have to fight over our personal cult reality. People also say what they see, that has to be processed. Oh how cute(nothing is cute it's just a way to say it's sexualized to them). Reject compliments, they are impositions that come to define us if we accept them. They're like, this is similar to something else I've seen and you can help them process that by stopping being tribal like lunatics and let the nameless version of yourself out of it's cage. Slave names and numbers, that's what we are. Whenever someone sees your social security card and it's numbers they dump all the process onto you making you eat shit.
"I" help others overcome their past problems by out processing the occult, but I need help. Hook up culture is all the rage, free your sexuality, be wild. This isn't what we need to cure ourselves of our problems. Please separate your "self" from this message and words. It is difficult to communicate.
stop the thumbs up culture. Nobody truly knows "you" and can vouch for you. Block people from hooking up at bars, set boundaries everywhere, especially public.
Information is here, please "follow".
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?...
February 22, 2025
Empecé el libro pensando que sería de emprendimiento general sin conocer la figura del emprendedor social. En ocasiones tedioso de leer pero me parece muy valioso el prisma con el que habla de la vida.
August 4, 2018
Interesting case studies, particularly around disability, development and NGO’s in a global context.
The book honours the trials, failures, and creative solutions of leaders which is great.
It’s operates more like a textbook that paperback which is helpful for students.
It’s a bit dry and exhausting to jump from continent to continent and some of the backstory isn’t really needed.
The writing meanders and repeats. It could be a bit more brief and could be outlined so it’s easier to extract the meaning.
The book honours the trials, failures, and creative solutions of leaders which is great.
It’s operates more like a textbook that paperback which is helpful for students.
It’s a bit dry and exhausting to jump from continent to continent and some of the backstory isn’t really needed.
The writing meanders and repeats. It could be a bit more brief and could be outlined so it’s easier to extract the meaning.
July 11, 2010
"unfinished"
How to Change the World is one of the most interesting and inspiring books. It basically gives you a good introduction about the work of Social Entrepreneurship; what it means, what it does or can do, who its “heroes” are, and how it can be applied effectively.
What I find most interesting about this book is how the information is being presented. I really loved the author’s writing style and flow of thoughts. Mainly, the book introduces a series of detailed case studies of successful social entrepreneurs. As you go on and on, you feel like the book sorta draws implicitly the know-how of the way social entrepreneurship functions.
It’s very recommended for those who are interested in this field in particular as well as those who have causes to live for or those who really want to bring about a positive change to their community or the world as a whole :)
How to Change the World is one of the most interesting and inspiring books. It basically gives you a good introduction about the work of Social Entrepreneurship; what it means, what it does or can do, who its “heroes” are, and how it can be applied effectively.
What I find most interesting about this book is how the information is being presented. I really loved the author’s writing style and flow of thoughts. Mainly, the book introduces a series of detailed case studies of successful social entrepreneurs. As you go on and on, you feel like the book sorta draws implicitly the know-how of the way social entrepreneurship functions.
It’s very recommended for those who are interested in this field in particular as well as those who have causes to live for or those who really want to bring about a positive change to their community or the world as a whole :)
September 22, 2011
This is an intriguing book. I didn't finish it because I didn't find it entirely captivating (and I was reading a couple other books at the same time), but the idea behind the book and the stories in it are lots of food for thought. The idea of the author is to take a look at social entrepreneurs-- people who have dynamic, viable ideas of how to better their surroundings or the conditions of others in a sustainable way. And through the assistance of a charitable organization, they've done it. I liked this concept because it wasn't just a book about some guy who throws out money to people; instead, he looks for ways to help people help themselves. I may try rereading this one again in the future.
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July 21, 2011Very interesting collection of case studies in the emerging citizen sector. (As opposed to either public or private, the emerging "citizen sector" is an entity unto itself.)
I found this very informative, and very hopeful. As I recently discussed with a friend, the most viable solution to the ills of this world cannot be government directed. (Yes, i think there is an absolute place for government involvement, as I am somewhat of a socialist, but the truly sustainable changes that need to occur need to occur organically, and through entrepreneurial creativity and ingenuity.) Therefore, this book was a nice counter-balance to the partial-at-best story we see on the news. Good read; I'd recommend it for anyone who thinks that change is necessary and inevitable.
I found this very informative, and very hopeful. As I recently discussed with a friend, the most viable solution to the ills of this world cannot be government directed. (Yes, i think there is an absolute place for government involvement, as I am somewhat of a socialist, but the truly sustainable changes that need to occur need to occur organically, and through entrepreneurial creativity and ingenuity.) Therefore, this book was a nice counter-balance to the partial-at-best story we see on the news. Good read; I'd recommend it for anyone who thinks that change is necessary and inevitable.
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September 5, 2013This book expresses innovate and new methods to development. The writer David is a great thinker! Such kind of ideas are very much important to everybody. To me every time when I read this book, I get many challenges. I see the time is going without doing something big, though I know that the big number (numeric)come from one. So every step I do starts another one.
If all of us could have innovative ideas and put into practice the skills and knowledge that we are learning from books, Colleges and Universities, this world could be the better place to stay.
I encourage everybody to read this book and the vacuum will be fed with something interesting in life and practice what is written and positive changes will happen
Charles Nkwabi from Tanzania
student at AIU
If all of us could have innovative ideas and put into practice the skills and knowledge that we are learning from books, Colleges and Universities, this world could be the better place to stay.
I encourage everybody to read this book and the vacuum will be fed with something interesting in life and practice what is written and positive changes will happen
Charles Nkwabi from Tanzania
student at AIU
June 24, 2007
Some chapters of this book were assigned to me in a college class on social entrepreneurship. I decided to go back and read the whole thing, and was pleased. The writing itself isn't anything to remark on, and it's not especially instructive on the "how" end of things (despite what the title might suggest). What it is, though, is a journalistic set of little vignettes on some seemingly normal people who have done some pretty phenomenal things. It's a quick read, and really quite inspiring. Don't expect a phenomenal book, but I thoroughly enjoyed it and would definitely recommend this for anyone who spends time thinking about finding creative ways to drive social change.
September 7, 2009
This was given to me at a development conference I was at. It is centered around projects that Ashoka fellows run, with each chapter a summary of the fellow and their idea. I didn't know much about Ashoka before reading this, which appears to be a great organization. The projects are all quite interesting to read about.
The book is definitely worth reading for those interested in social entrepreneurship. However, if could benefit from having tried to extract more "blueprints" as it calls them, from the different entrepreneurs to more descriptively explain how to change the world.
Much of the writing is particularly relevant for glocal.
The book is definitely worth reading for those interested in social entrepreneurship. However, if could benefit from having tried to extract more "blueprints" as it calls them, from the different entrepreneurs to more descriptively explain how to change the world.
Much of the writing is particularly relevant for glocal.
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July 27, 2011I would recommend this to anyone interested in the social sector, but who doesn't know a whole ton about it. It's enjoyable to read, with short profiles of Bill Drayton's Ashoka foundation and a selected group of people and their high-impact projects. It eventually makes some interesting conclusions about what qualities a successful social entrepreneur possesses and about how this sector is starting to go through some major transformations. I liked the epilogue about how the author continued to pursue the book after 9/11, realizing that there are many more social entrepreneurs than there are terrorists, but that they don't receive nearly as much attention.
December 30, 2016
It is good to know that the advances in business management and scale from the last 50 years are finally being accepted and acknowledged in the social sector. However those ideas are not the limelight of this book, and it seems the author has had no idea that these concepts have been long established, like a child in a candy store for the first time.
It is a good list of biographies of some social entrepreneurs, however some of those aren't even good ones, but the author doesn't know himself how to rate their ability or offer wisdom to how they work.
It is a good list of biographies of some social entrepreneurs, however some of those aren't even good ones, but the author doesn't know himself how to rate their ability or offer wisdom to how they work.
December 8, 2016
This is the book that started me off on my path to becoming a social entrepreneur. It was great to hear about the true social entrepreneurs, who innovated and worked very hard to solve social problems, simply because it was their calling. Today, we see more social entrepreneurs who run "social enterprises" which have business models attached to them, and that's great too, but I enjoyed hearing the untold stories of these very inspiring people.
January 26, 2016
The power of simple and sometimes small ideas, combined with visionary and persistent people, a bit of luck and collaboration with others can and does change the world. This book was so inspiring to me. I like to read about good works done by good people.
May 13, 2020
This is an encouraging book to read- people who seem powerless being helped by others who might appear powerless, but who think as entrepreneurs. They come up with new ways to help people in big ways!
February 22, 2012
The stories of social entrepreneurship in Bornstein’s How to Change the World are inspiring and instructive. I read as a textbook, but would read again.
March 14, 2013
This book is not what the title would suggest. Its just an excuse to promote a particular foundation.
August 11, 2018
الكتاب وكما اشار في احدى الصفحات الى ان هناك عالم اخر خلف العالم المرعب الذي نراه. ويحتاج كل الناس في كل مكان من العالم لرؤيته... فتجارب الرياديين حول العالم تستحق الدراسه والاستفاده
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December 9, 2021What this book is about?
This book is about getting inspiration to do something extra ordinary because other ordinary people like you and me did it. The way the stories are presented makes you feel that you too could do it.
Here are 5 social entrepreneurs among many who have been researched in this book:
Gloria de Souza: Environmental Studies (EVS), India . Her personal crisis was, “Something is deeply wrong in our society. And I think I can do something very important with this idea. If we can help children grow up learning to think rather than memorize and repeat, learning to problem solve, learning to be creative, learning to be actors rather than acted upon, we can create a generation that will be very different. And India will be different. And that’s a revolution.”
Erzsebet Szekeres: Alliance Industrial Union, HungaryHer personal crisis was, “ her son, Tibor, had microcephalus , which is a condition that includes, “abnormal smallness of the head and severe mental retardation.” To many, the simple solution to dealing with the disabled was to send them to institutions for their lives, this was not an option for Szekeres”
Veronica Khosa: Tateni, South Africa. Her personal crisis was, “Shortly after watching one of her patients die because he was locked in his house with no water, Khosa talked with a group of young prostitutes who wanted different jobs to avoid getting AIDS”
Fabio Rosa: Agroelectric Adequate Technology Systems, Brazil. His personal crisis was, “Rosa initially started working on solving the problem of irrigation for the farmers. The price of water was high for them, and the only good solution for this problem was to use electricity to get the water out of the ground”
Jeroo Billimoria: Childline, India. His personal crisis, “I was very moved by the spirit of survival among the homeless,” Billimoria said. She found herself drawn to the children back home in Bombay, India, and discovered that they needed to be acknowledged, that they were “proud””
The book is almost about Ashoka Foundation. It is an organization that
identifies "unicorn" level social entrepreneurs
supports them with their expertise, network & logistics
mainly gives credence, validity and visibility to budding social entrepreneurs
gives financial awards on a yearly basis to top social entrepreneurs
This book inspires us, the readers as warns us also that:
changing the world isn't for the faint hearted
without some shocking life changing events, no social entrepreneur seem to develop:yes pretty much like in movies where the protogonist suffers a personal crisis & builds an organization around it
any social entrepreneurs must be able to work without getting any credit in obscurity for decades
without support from organisations like Ashoka, success is somehow improbable
The writer comes out with 6 common qualities of successful social entrepreneurs. These qualities are necessary for anyone who wants to change the world in some ways.
Willingness to Self-Correct
Willingness to Share Credit
Willingness to Break Free from Established Structures
Willingness to Cross Disciplinary Boundaries
Willingness to Work Quietly
Strong Ethical Impetus
How is it useful to you in your :
Life
Reading this book and learning about the life stories of social entrepreneurs that basically share a typical movie like storyline as I mentioned above of a personal life changing event that provides and impetus to transform one’s frustration into a kind of universal solution.
This book reminds us that success isn’t overnight and takes decades as well as support from others.
Business
Now that many banks and corporate houses are involved in CSR, this book gives a framework with Ashoka how they can produce much greater impact in society by identifying and helping social entrepreneurs instead of giving away few items or building a few structures.
Career
This book tells the importance of patience, versatility and collaboration in finding success. Also the six qualities listed above are useful for all us. We can see them in all the stories of the social entrepreneurs.
This book is about getting inspiration to do something extra ordinary because other ordinary people like you and me did it. The way the stories are presented makes you feel that you too could do it.
Here are 5 social entrepreneurs among many who have been researched in this book:
Gloria de Souza: Environmental Studies (EVS), India . Her personal crisis was, “Something is deeply wrong in our society. And I think I can do something very important with this idea. If we can help children grow up learning to think rather than memorize and repeat, learning to problem solve, learning to be creative, learning to be actors rather than acted upon, we can create a generation that will be very different. And India will be different. And that’s a revolution.”
Erzsebet Szekeres: Alliance Industrial Union, HungaryHer personal crisis was, “ her son, Tibor, had microcephalus , which is a condition that includes, “abnormal smallness of the head and severe mental retardation.” To many, the simple solution to dealing with the disabled was to send them to institutions for their lives, this was not an option for Szekeres”
Veronica Khosa: Tateni, South Africa. Her personal crisis was, “Shortly after watching one of her patients die because he was locked in his house with no water, Khosa talked with a group of young prostitutes who wanted different jobs to avoid getting AIDS”
Fabio Rosa: Agroelectric Adequate Technology Systems, Brazil. His personal crisis was, “Rosa initially started working on solving the problem of irrigation for the farmers. The price of water was high for them, and the only good solution for this problem was to use electricity to get the water out of the ground”
Jeroo Billimoria: Childline, India. His personal crisis, “I was very moved by the spirit of survival among the homeless,” Billimoria said. She found herself drawn to the children back home in Bombay, India, and discovered that they needed to be acknowledged, that they were “proud””
The book is almost about Ashoka Foundation. It is an organization that
identifies "unicorn" level social entrepreneurs
supports them with their expertise, network & logistics
mainly gives credence, validity and visibility to budding social entrepreneurs
gives financial awards on a yearly basis to top social entrepreneurs
This book inspires us, the readers as warns us also that:
changing the world isn't for the faint hearted
without some shocking life changing events, no social entrepreneur seem to develop:yes pretty much like in movies where the protogonist suffers a personal crisis & builds an organization around it
any social entrepreneurs must be able to work without getting any credit in obscurity for decades
without support from organisations like Ashoka, success is somehow improbable
The writer comes out with 6 common qualities of successful social entrepreneurs. These qualities are necessary for anyone who wants to change the world in some ways.
Willingness to Self-Correct
Willingness to Share Credit
Willingness to Break Free from Established Structures
Willingness to Cross Disciplinary Boundaries
Willingness to Work Quietly
Strong Ethical Impetus
How is it useful to you in your :
Life
Reading this book and learning about the life stories of social entrepreneurs that basically share a typical movie like storyline as I mentioned above of a personal life changing event that provides and impetus to transform one’s frustration into a kind of universal solution.
This book reminds us that success isn’t overnight and takes decades as well as support from others.
Business
Now that many banks and corporate houses are involved in CSR, this book gives a framework with Ashoka how they can produce much greater impact in society by identifying and helping social entrepreneurs instead of giving away few items or building a few structures.
Career
This book tells the importance of patience, versatility and collaboration in finding success. Also the six qualities listed above are useful for all us. We can see them in all the stories of the social entrepreneurs.
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