(Image taken from video: Come along with Hariya: Dive deep into a river. Hop from tree to tree. Or, soar high into the skies.Source: http://www.teriin.org/come_along_with_hariya.php) Are you an entrepreneur? A traditional business/industry man or woman working many hours a day? Maybe an representative from a large organization or institution? And your working day is full…
Category: innovation
Hi, I am Mr Innovation ….
Innovation today is one of the most used buzzwords when it comes to presentations, company discussions, future business plans. Innovation is key to the future – this is what generally is thought and connected to this term. Often specific projects and teams are set up to do innovation, to collect innovative ideas, some specifically “advanced”…
Crowdsourcing, creativity and feeling good
Crowdsourcing, creativity and feeling good Who participates in crowdsourcing activities? What can you expect when you launch a crowdsourcing based competition? These are questions which normally lead to keywords such as everyone can participate, social thinking, better ideas, more ideas, innovative ideas. But is this really the case? And does this apply always and in…
How you can help to promote social entrepreneur ideas
On 22nd June, took place the Impact journalism day, a day where 20 journals from 20 countries dedicated a supplement to social impact topics. That’s what they did: Building a network of like-minded editors Impact Journalism Day works through sharing. Each newspaper in the project found the most inspiring change-makers and creative innovations in their…
Everyone is a genius – It is all about perspectives
Everyone is a genius. But if you judge a fish on its ability to climb a tree It will live its whole life believing he is stupid. Albert Einstein Have you ever thought who might be an expert for detecting breast cancer at a very early stage just by palpation? Probably those who for years…
Perceptional change – the viral effect of doing good
Maybe you have heard about the Dove experiment. What you can see in the video about this experiment is the following: there is a painter drawing women according to how they describe themselves. He cannot see them during the experiment. Afterwards a second portrait is done – this time there is another women describing the…
Ideas needed – health from a different perspective
When I came across this article I asked myself there must be a lot of ideas in the world how to help patients and private caregivers, relatives and friends who are caring about patients day by day at home and experience these issues described in the cited article below. Some of the issues raised are…
Opening the box – before solving a problem we need to understand
I assume that you do have an idea on how to open the box, don’t you? But have you asked also why? Why you should open it? According to many publications and articles it seems that innovation and being creative aims mainly to find solutions. We need to find solutions for social needs, for growing…
What, if Social fictions are a way to change the world?
Science fiction and status today Just some years ago in science fictions we had seen strange houses, incredible rapid vehicles, unbelievable transitions of energy and power, unlimited communication opportunities, bridging incredible distances in a few seconds. Scientist have discovered so many things and made them available where we just dreamed of in past science fictions….
Social entrepreneurs are not afraid!
One of my last favourite books I read recently was from Brene Brown: Daring Greatly. One important issue Brene highlights is that when we’re afraid, we prevent ourselves from accomplishing what we’re capable of. If you think about social enterprises and social entrepreneurship, many of them go undiscovered ways. They try out new business models…
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