Regeneration | Rethink

People have been working to regenerate areas of Britain for decades; most acutely since Thatcher took power. Thatcher came along, with the promise of the free market to make our world better. Reagan more aptly described it as trickle down economics. Trickle being the operative world. What ensued, in fact, is the fastest climb [...]

CIC needs to Change

The CIC needs to change. That’s community interest company to the uninitiated.
Simply really. We need to change it one simple way for two reasons:
How?
The asset lock needs to look like the dividend cap. Some portion of the asset needs to be available for private asset appreciation.
Why?
1. Social Entrepreneurs need to be fairly compensated [...]

Entrepreneurial Leadership, not Bureaucratic Paradigms

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 [...]

In Charge. And getting out of the way. (Well Said.)

I don't think I can improve on this post and its message; so I am posting it here in its entirety with links to it.
This is from a daring person who is taking control of a process usually much out of your control (finding a job). She is, at least from what I gather [...]

Open source social business

Is there a way to get the important info to people starting or running a social business (aka enterprise) in a collaborative open source way that eliminates the bureaucracy of hub sites and presented on a user friendly way? Importantly, if you found a way, what chance does it have of reaching a meaningful portion [...]

Shine Launched!

Apologies for the brief hiatus in posting.
Finding the time to blog isn’t easy, especially when planning a big launch
event. Thankfully all the planning paid off (thanks to Cultivate for all their
hard work) and the Shine launch was a big success. It was great to see the
building full of people and buzzing with energy. The event [...]

People or Structures?

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 [...]

Social Business. An Antidote.

If greed is the root cause of the current financial crisis (and others), then how can we cure ourselves of the root cause. This is the premise of a short editorial in the New York Times that underscores the importance of getting at the fundamental issue of our time.
Could an emerging social business (ref: social [...]

The Choice of Social Entrepreneurs

Social entrepreneurs are often puzzling to the rest of the world. We are not religious -giving meaning to our passion – (although we might be), We are not civil servants – giving meaning to our actions – (although we might be), but we still have a desire to create things that connect and leverage the [...]

Partnership; real or imagined?

Partnership. What does this word mean?
I am getting the feeling lately that many people see partnership more
as a way for them to get something, rather than a relationship where
they give and get. Why do you think it has come to this? Perhaps the
jaded view of partnership is driven by the typical construct:
1. Two parties [...]

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