PART 2: Shallow self-knowledge about what's driving you will crumble quickly when you face resistance. So: why you? Why do you care? Tough questions from the gloves-off mentor for aspiring social entrepreneurs.
Nobel laureate condemns those who ‘mindlessly’ continue the old ways of doing business and urges swift action, speaking at celebration event for those who are transforming corporates from within.
A European status would enable social enterprises to gain recognition across member states and take advantage of single market, according to Nicolas Schmit – while fellow EU official Thierry Breton says social economy crucial to future of bloc.
The Nobel laureate sees a bleak future ahead, unless we act fast to reset our failed economic system. Enter the young people endowed with superpowers – and the social businesses designed to solve problems.
“Everything starts with imagination,” the Nobel prize laureate says, calling on social entrepreneurs to follow the lead of science fiction creators – and advising budding intrapreneurs to be “outrageously bold” in their ideas.
Over the last 12 years, the Skoll World Forum has offered an embarrassment of riches when it comes to inspirational, world changing speakers. Included in our selection are a smattering of world leaders, a few Nobel prize winners and a pop star.
For the first issue of our new print magazine, Pioneers Post Quarterly, we spoke to Muhammad Yunus. Nearly a decade since he suggested we put poverty in a museum, we asked the great man how we can do it.
