The excitement and opportunities for ethical and social entrepreneurship. Keynote at EU's Your World, Your Business launch to students, politicians and civil servant from across the European Union.
3. If the next generation is to face the future with zest and
self-confidence, we must educate them to be original as
well as competent.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
6. Why does…? We see a possibility
We have a (hopefully) better
What if…? idea
How do I…? We make it happen
What do I need We use all our resources
to…?
We must
How can I make it make it work
live and grow?
Why not…?
We do it now
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
7. Solve it
Total Buzz of right first
freedom fighting the time
odds
Crazy
situations
Self-reliant Forced to
– no-one be
but you resourceful
Can start
right now
Creative
expression Can change
Why bother? the world
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
8. Social
entrepreneurs
=
Use a business engine to
power positive social and
environmental change
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
13. Think differently
1. Make the ‘problem’ part of the ‘solution’
2. Create a win-win-win
3. Design it to grow ethically
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
14. In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who
learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have
prevailed.
Charles Darwin
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
15. What gets me up in the morning?
Depression will be No.2 burden on global health
Suicide kills more than murder and war combined
10 million kids in US on Ritalin
The average European took off 11.3 days in 2005 costing 1.3% of
GDP
Stress costs the UK 5 billion a year
1 in 5 in Spain and UK will have depression
People less happy than in 1950s
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
17. All of humanity now has the option to ‘make it’
successfully and sustainably, by virtue of our
having minds, discovering principles and being
able to employ these principles to do more with less.
R. Buckminster Fuller
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
27. 1. Know yourself first
2. Get in the game
3. The only failure is giving up
4. There is always a way
5. Ignore the cynical voices
6. Win-wins do exist
7. Connect with people like you
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
28. If you were the only one who could change the one thing that
frustrates you most about the world…
…what entrepreneurial act could you do by the end of the
weekend to get started?
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
29. How wonderful it is that nobody needs to wait a single moment before
starting to improve the world.
Anne Frank
Wednesday, December 2, 2009