Elena Herdieckerhoff explains why we need to change the prevalent cultural narrative around highly sensitive people.
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Many of today and tomorrow’s social and environmental healers are and must be entrepreneurs.
The definition of success often comes in different shapes and sizes. For most entrepreneurs, the measure of success is usually financial gains. However, the journey of a social entrepreneur is slightly different.
Every entrepreneur has an opportunity to make a major impact within their own organization. You just have to know where to look.
By marrying purpose and profit, these innovative companies address social and environmental challenges in a way that is financially sustainable--a virtuous cycle that benefits all involved.
Social entrepreneurship is attracting growing amounts of talent, money, and attention, but along with its increasing popularity has come less certainty about what exactly a social entrepreneur is and does.
You want to attract talent and investors, and they both want to feel good about what they are committing to.
Since entrepreneurs are creators, they hold the power to make statements that can cause a ripple effect, impacting the masses in a positive or negative way (depending on how it’s being used).
CSR might be the last thing on an entrepreneur’s mind when he or she sets out to start a successful business, but I’m now convinced it should be part of a company’s culture from Day 1.
Design-oriented firms such as Apple and IDEO have demonstrated how design thinking can affect business results. However, most managers lack a sense of how to use this new approach for issues other than product development and sales growth.
Even though Black women are starting businesses at a rapid rate, their businesses earn less revenue, remain smaller, and have a higher failure rate.