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Scaling Up Without Losing Your Edge

Harvard Business Review

Schumacher, one of the fathers of the Green movement, declared that "small is beautiful" and called for "a new orientation of science and technology towards the organic, the gentle, the non-violent, the elegant and beautiful." Not if it also builds in a capacity for innovation and quick response — that is, pilot, perfect, scale up.

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How Social Entrepreneurs Can Have the Most Impact

Harvard Business Review

Bill Drayton, founder and CEO of Ashoka, points to the necessary skill of becoming a leader of teams of teams.Think about the pace of new cancer therapies — and how research center directors lead knowledge sharing between labs across continents and oceans. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. Leadership Social enterprise'

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The 3 Preconditions for an Entrepreneurial Society

Harvard Business Review

In 1985 Peter Drucker argued for a shift toward an entrepreneurial society, one where “executives in all institutions…make innovation and entrepreneurship a normal, ongoing everyday activity.” Internet technology has essentially democratized entrepreneurialism. To be a taxi driver, you need a car and a GPS.