image is taken from video, cited below Dare to imagine how the world could look in fifty, hundred years… Have you ever asked yourself – how people will live together? – how family life will be organized? – how schools will be structured? – how prevention and health issues will be solved? – which will…
Tag: Social business
Creativity or innovation – what you are looking for?
Have you ever met someone who is not creative? Probably all of us are creative. We all try to find excuses when we are too late, or want to leave earlier than planned. Sometimes with really cool and creative ideas. In urgent cases we find crazy solutions for repairing things. We all can design a…
What investors want to know
Are you going to meet a potential investor? Certainly, there are many options how to prepare. But the most detailed preparation might not always be successful. The question to ask yourself is which are the things investors will hear from you? Which are the criteria do take the final decision if to invest in your…
If you think it, ask it – the hidden power for social entrepreneurship
If you think it, ask it … in a nice way of course! Unlocking what the other person knows, feels, wants is essential for social business. These questions do not require years of studies nor a complete market research project. They can be simple: Easy ones. Challenging ones. Interesting ones. Impossible ones. But all designed…
How to combine a coffee break and content marketing
I am sure you have heard it and read a lot about it: Content is king. Content marketing is the best way of reaching people, socialising and interacting. Probably it is also right and as Gartner says: It’s a challenge to keep the creativity fresh. It’s hard to know what will do well, what people…
Social entrepreneurs and digital presence – the sum of actions counts
From all those years of study, at school, university, professional courses – by the things I remember – what do I retain? Not much. But some moments, a random fact or snatch of memories comes back and make me think. Some phrases, some impressions, questions, reactions. Small pieces that one by one formed my knowledge,…
Shakespeare loved to entertain the audience – why shouldn’t you? Social entrepreneurs, part II
Do you read pure scientific information on a certain topic if you are not a real expert or/and don’t have a specific motivation to do so? Do you like stories which entertain you and make you laugh? Do you prefer websites full of texts and long scrolling activities to shorter, focused and entertaining websites? No,…
How to succeed as social entrepreneur, part 1
Are you a social entrepreneur? Do you want to do something good and scale it up? Then you should learn from nature and increase your network channels’ usage and networking skills. Networking needs to become one of your main activities. Because this is the natural way on how things work very well and complexity can…
Why we should think about closing our high schools
I am one of those who liked going to school. At least most of all the 13 years I spent there. But with the distance of more than 25 years and looking back to what I really needed and what I missed for being prepared for life I am not so sure any more that…
He said “no arms, no chocolate’ – why creative thinking is key for social business
Do you remember the film ‘the Intouchables’ when you read this phrase which the young caretaker said to the aristocratic and intellectual Philippe, a quadriplegic millionaire? Sounds like missing empathy and no idea what is needed and absolutely ‘out of scope’? And what about the unusual ways on how both interact? Just taking the Maserati…