Saras Sarasvathy, a professor at the business school at the University of Virginia, presents a great argument about the thing that differentiates an entrepreneur. He narrows it down to the entrepreneur's ability to think effectually versus causally. I thought I would share this because I love the theory and it helped me in evaluating my own inner entrepreneur ;)
It's said that an entrepreneur is someone who takes a great idea from one discipline and applies it for the success of another. I look for inspiration in people, business, culture, and places to apply to career and life. Also, someone else said, I write therefore I am.
Sunday, September 20, 2009
Saturday, September 12, 2009
Social Enterprise, De-mystified and Evaluated
I believe it was Warren Buffet who said that innovation is applying the school of thought from one field or industry, on another industry.... And one great example of this in the past decade has been the application of more rigorous measurement of bottom-line results in philanthropy, to produce the school of practice now known as social enterprise.
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