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As a Social Entrepreneurs you are bound to have a deep and driving passion. However, you are not immune to becoming distracted by the daily tasks and toil of launching and/or running your business.
Take some time to check that your day to day activities align with your purpose, and set some short and long term goals for the year. Get started now so in 2021 you can thrive!
As we start to see the road out of #Covid19 One10 Founder, Geoff Gourley, has been taking a growing number of calls from Gen X executives & managers that have recently been made redundant, lost their jobs or are considering a change to a more meaningful pathway.
Terms like ‘Corporate Retiree’ or ‘Corporate Escapee’ are being used on a daily basis.
Transitioning into a social entrepreneur from the corporate world, may begin with starting to feel lost, suffering burnout, becoming underwhelmed or even depressed, especially if their only mid-way through their career.
With the advent of new century, the world has witnessed a boom in the number of social enterprises across the globe. In US alone, more than half of social enterprises were institutionalized in 2006 or later and the trend is same elsewhere too. In India, around 89% social enterprises are just ten years old or younger. This signifies towards the novelty of social sector sphere, providing a colossal magnitude to budding entrepreneurs for innovation, ideation to experiment, refining or pivoting towards new ones, job creation while giving out million of dollars for maximizing social values through organizations, work and lives.
Your business concept might be unique, or your technology cutting edge but according to a study by Harvard Business Review regardless of whether you’re a not-for-profit or a bank, all paths to business success are the same.
Right now, not-for-profits all over Australia are competing for Christmas donations and making preparations for the beginning of 2017. What are you going to do differently in 2017?
Success or failure is not determined only by you, the entrepreneur. But the choices you make, and consequently the story of your business, is. Who are you may be more important than what you do.
There is so much going on that I want to share and be proud of, but I cannot work out why I look at the string of emails and messages I have been unable to muster the effort to respond to and wonder how I woke up suddenly feeling like I was drowning.
