Tag Archives: Social Business

Playgrounds

by Todd Hannula on 23. May, 2010 in Innovation

Why do some neighbourhoods have brilliant parks, while others are built like prison playgrounds; metal, unbreakable? Myopic tendencies.
My first thought is leadership. Some neighbourhoods lack visionary and strategic leadership. This is evident in poor and rich neighbourhoods alike. They lack the ability to see what is possible, sticking with a defensive approach based on what [...]

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Escher Drawing

Social Business in Escher

by Todd Hannula on 19. Sep, 2009 in Risk

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%.
We [...]

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Entrepreneurial Leadership, not Bureaucratic Paradigms

by Chris on 28. Jun, 2009 in Social Business

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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