What defines happiness in your country? The number of excellent plans how to make people stay better? Economic growth? A good government? In the academic world social impact, happiness and make-the-world-better-concepts are broadly discussed and shared value or the social progress index are leading terms. “There has always been the idea that economic growth is…
Category: change and society
Understand how work is changing
‘From work to workupation’ – that’s how Gerd Leonhard describes in a recent article the new understanding of ‘work’ . Working for earning a living is the traditional description what we and earlier generations think of in a first instant, when we are asked why we work. But it seems that it is not the…
Change is more than an all-in-one Dharavi solution
Change – more than the ‘Dharavi solution’ Short term supporting activities can be helpful – sometimes. Somehow. Some more, some less. But they do not change the general situation as long as there is no chance to revolutionize, create and grow another way of life. Focused support in huge crisis situations is without any doubt…
Older than 30: social impact sleeper?
Reading through many articles that talk about social entrepreneurship and social change there is one thing that is obvious: social change and social entrepreneurship are often connected to young people. Competitions are designed and often open to students/people below 30 only, universities see the high potential of change in the young generation. You are young,…
My video of the month – social media for social change
Today I found this video and I just want to share with you – because it shows the networking community that empowers the different thinking. Social media, social change and social business – wherever we focus on it leads to the new way of thinking and shows the mechanism behind. Just thinking of what can…
Engaging for society or becoming a manager? Just combine!
“To stay engaged with global markets and be successful in the future business must get social.” Being social is now a must. Putting the customer in the enter of attention and allow him to connect. Anytime, anywhere. This has been developed over years now and is not really new any more. But what is meant…
Social change: Why business needs smiling Yoga at its heart
Don’t we and our industries, we as managers know about poverty, ecological problems, hunger , missing education and similar necessities in this world? Don’t many of us already engage? Individuals, foundations, companies… Yes. We do. Many of us are interested in social change – we all know that. Nevertheless, the success is still limited. Don’t…
The checklist manager is dead. Good bye to traditional business goals
It is a pity. Good old times have gone. And with them the checklist manager approach to make business. But which kind of business? The clear goals to achieve – where they are? Do we still know how these goals should look? Some years ago it was pretty easy: There were clear rules in place,…
Beyond traditional CSR: connecting is key
Without doubt: Many enterprises, academic institutions, politicians, foundations and other institutions have social responsibility activities ongoing. Some of them on a local level, others on a global level. Some of them are active to solve water problems, others are active in technical based challenges and others again build infrastructures for transportation… In many different countries,…
The desire to change
Everyone knows that society needs change. The dimension of social needs – be it in emerging markets , be it in the richer and rich countries – is obvious. But is there really the desire to change? And if so, how strong is this desire? Many programs fail because they do not take into account…
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