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Avoid the speed trap! Discover how changemakers can find lasting solutions to urgent social problems through a proven 5-step process for listening thoughtfully, building broad support, and exploring unconventional options.
Society celebrates leaders who promise fast, easy solutions to the world's problems-but quick fixes are just mirages that fade, leaving us with the same broken systems. The truth is, effective social change happens through slow,...
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Our economic crisis has shown that we need a fundamentally new kind of business leader-able to make ethical decisions in the face of strategic unknowns, serve the environment and society while also serving the needs of investors and shareholders, and understand how their personality and the social context in which they operate impacts their leadership. This book lays out a compelling model for creating and developing these new entrepreneurial leaders....
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Entrepreneurs are hungry. But it's not just because they're living on ramen and adrenaline while they pour their all into their business. Peter Cohan has found it's something deeper: a hunger to create the kind of world they want to work in. To leave a legacy, they build carefully with limited resources and maintain control of the venture's direction. For years, students have told Cohan that the seminal business strategy guide, Michael Porter's Competitive...
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As he did in his classic Synchronicity, Joseph Jaworski once again takes us on a mind-expanding journey, this time to the very heart of creativity and deep knowing.
Institutions of all sorts are facing profound change today, with complexity increasing at a speed and intensity we've never experienced before. Jaworski came to realize that traditional analytical leadership approaches are inadequate for dealing creatively with this complexity. To effectively...
5) The Business Solution to Poverty: Designing Products and Services for Three Billion New Customers
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Right now, the number of people living on $2 or less a day is more than the entire population of the world in 1950. These 2.7 billion people are not just the world's greatest challenge; they represent an extraordinary market opportunity. By learning how to serve them ethically and effectively, businesses can earn handsome profits while helping to solve one of the world's most intractable problems. The key is what Paul Polak and Mal Warwick call Zero-Based...
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Companies that are owned and run by families need to develop leadership and entrepreneurial skills just like any other company, but family firms face obstacles that 'hire and fire' companies don't. Family dynamics rarely perfectly mirror the best practices in the latest Harvard Business Review. So what factors in the family and work environments enable the creation of leaders who share the entrepreneurial fire of the founders? Do specific education,...
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Faking it until you make it doesn't work-at least not long enough to build a sustainable business. This book by a CEO and public relations superstar puts a spin on the need for authentic leadership.
While self-doubt, sometimes called "imposter syndrome," is all too real for many aspiring leaders, especially women, there's a difference between "faking" confidence and running a con game. Elizabeth Holmes and Billy McFarland thrived on faking it...
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B Corps are a global movement of more than 2,700 companies in 60 countries-like Patagonia, Ben & Jerry's, Kickstarter, Danone North America, and Eileen Fisher-that are using the power of business as a force for good. B Corps have been certified to have met rigorous standards of social and environmental performance, accountability, and transparency. This book is the authoritative guide to the what, why, and how of B Corp certification. Co-authors Ryan...
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Betsy Polk and Maggie Chotas have learned something powerful: when women work together they discover a level of support, flexibility, confidence, accountability, and freedom to be themselves that they rarely find in other work relationships. Drawing on their own twelve-year partnership and from interviews with 125 women business partners, Polk and Chotas demolish the myths that keep women from collaborating and offer advice for handling a host of...
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The Magic of Tiny Business. You Don't Have to Go Big to Make a Great Living. Too many of us feel trapped by work that doesn't allow us to live our purpose, feed our passions, or use our gifts. We fantasize about starting our own business, but we're told this will mean going deeply into debt, spending years working eighty hours a week, and coping with the relentless pressure to grow. Eco-Bags founder Sharon Rowe says there's another way: go tiny. She...
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Four innovation experts come together and introduce a revolutionary methodology that reveals how to seek out authentic demand for your product, idea, or movement.
Tapping into innovation isn't easy; in fact, it's often extraordinarily hard. And when 95% of innovations and new ideas in business, government, and philanthropy fail, it's important to figure out why. The answer? Customer indifference. Innovators often get stuck convincing themselves...
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Raise Capital on Your Own Terms. How to Fund Your Business without Selling Your Soul. You're an entrepreneur-you want to be your own boss, life a live you love, and do something great. But businesses need money, so you max out your credit cards, take out a second mortgage, and maybe even drive for Uber at night. You do everything yourself and on the cheap. Why? Because you think the only alternative is to make a devil's bargain with some venture capitalist...
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This is the first book on creating and running a social enterprise to combine theoretical discussions with current cases from around the world, filling a huge gap in the literature. It serves as an eminently practical blueprint for those who wish to build, sustain, and grow social ventures.
Building a Successful Social Venture draws on Eric Carlson's and James Koch's pioneering work with the Global Social Benefit Institute, cofounded by Koch at...
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Based on Bill Fisher's three-day seminars that regularly sell out all over the world, this book offers the kind of capital-raising street smarts no entrepreneur can do without. As a banker in Silicon Valley in the '80s and a businessman who founded a number of successful companies beginning in the '90s, Fisher has seen firsthand the kind of rookie mistakes aspiring entrepreneurs make that end up stopping them before they have a chance to get started.
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Jamey Stegmaier raised $1 million in funding, engaged thousands of enthusiastic supporters, founded a successful board game company, and has established him as a leading expert on crowdfunding. Stegmaier argues that crowdfunding is more than simply a new way to raise money it's a new way to do business. Crowdfunding enables you to create a loyal community before you even have a product, a community that will continue to support your efforts in a variety...
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Every four minutes, over 50 children under the age of five die. In the same four minutes, two mothers lose their lives in childbirth. Every year, malaria kills nearly 1.2 million people, despite the fact that it can be prevented with a mosquito net and treated for less than $1.50. Sadly, this list goes on and on. Millions are dying from diseases that we can easily and inexpensively prevent, diagnose, and treat. Why? Because even though we know exactly...
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'There's a new way to change the world,' writes social entrepreneur Michel Gelobter. It's called the lean startup-but it's not just for new ventures. It's been revolutionizing businesses of all ages for years, and Gelobter shows it can have the same transformative impact on the social sector. Traditionally, entrepreneurs develop a detailed plan, find money to fund it, and then pursue it to its conclusion. But conditions can change drastically at any...
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Offering a revolution in Black business financing, this book centers the entrepreneur and responds to the systemic failures surrounding Black wealth building.
America has a huge racial wealth gap today. Owning a business is one of the best ways to build wealth-but entrepreneurs need capital. And investing in Black companies is obstructed by systemic racism and implicit biases that continue to create barriers to success.
Merging historical information...
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