20 May 2008

Social Enterprise Business is currently being led by 45 person boards of coalitions and 1,720 quangos. Is this a real movement-a new way to do business- or is it simply a place to park some government funding? When the Times and RBS give out social entrepreneur awards to CEOs running charities…we have surely lost [...]

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What a week it has been. Social entrepreneurs are still the negative (white) space in an Escher symmetry drawing.

We saw an investment project go to an investment panel, returning to the panel actually, having achieved all that was asked of it and a bit more for good measure – including reducing the costs by 35%.
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In terms of a strategy for organisational culture there are two obvious elements to get right; people and structure. It is important to recruit people who buy into the culture and have a structure that encourages the right atmosphere.
For a rapidly growing company getting only one of these right is not enough. When a company [...]

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In terms of a strategy for organisational culture there are two obvious elements to get right; people and structure. It is important to recruit people who buy into the culture and have a structure that encourages the right atmosphere.
For a rapidly growing company getting only one of these right is not enough. When a company [...]

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