THE POWER OF SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURS:
OUR METHOD
OUR METHOD
This is the essence of what social entrepreneurs do -- their power and their methods.
They Orient Themselves -- The Three Planning Tasks:
They Get Perspective --The Three Approaches:
They Draw on the Energy within Systems --The Three Systemic Variables:
Additional Resources:
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They Orient Themselves -- The Three Planning Tasks:
- Making a Map -- conducting an "environmental scan" of an unproductive system to uncover your blind spots.
- Minding the Gaps -- focusing on where, exactly, your intentions get prevented from becoming results.
- Building the App -- preparing the platform that forms the basis of your actions. That is, can it become a sustainable business model? It is the mechanism that operationalizes our physics of change.
They Get Perspective --The Three Approaches:
- The Direct Approach -- focusing on the problem at hand, usually by taking one link in a delivery chain.
- The Group Approach -- focusing on the way people congregate,
- The Indirect Approach -- focusing on overlooked organizational, institutional or "environmental" resources,
They Draw on the Energy within Systems --The Three Systemic Variables:
- Channels-- those cause-and-effect pathways that connect or disconnect intentions with results
- Energy -- the forces that drive change and those that restrain change that operate within a domain.
- Leverage -- applying the right catalyst to lift or lighten the process of change.
Additional Resources:
- Browse through the stories of prominent social entrepreneurs on this website, for these stories will not only inspire you; they will give you some good ideas to put to use in your own project.
Now, it's time to get started!