Guest Post By Allie Hoffman of The Pari Project Lately I have been exploring the difference between ‘managers’ and ‘leaders’, wondering what ingredients go into making someone effective as one but not the other, and whether or not you can nurture both. The reason for the exploration is intensely personal; I’m supposed to step aside [...]
A friend just sent me this photo… Like with hero-worshiping in the social sector, when the media and then general public praises and supports a model which sounds like a quick fix to big problems, we get copy cats. Now we’re not only “giving things away” once, we’re giving DOUBLE things….. oh goodness. It will [...]
One of the things that I have learned over and over is that “PEPY is confusing to explain!” and we need to have a cogent message that conveys what we do. I can still work on being more concise, but here is how I have learned to describe the different areas in which we work: PEPY’s [...]
A few months ago I was involved in a long discussion about hybrid organizations on Social Edge. From that conversation, I ended up writing a post called “Dear Social Entrepreneurship Thought Leaders” about my views on the metrics and definitions we are using for social enterprises. Recently, I was lucky enough to be asked to synthesize these [...]
I just added some thoughts on the Social Edge discussion about about the Fetishization of Metrics. Add yours there as well! —- The more we focus on metrics, the less human we become. We focus on metrics to allow us to not personally interact with a problem and yet still try to “understand” it. The [...]
This is a comment I originally posted on The Suddes Group post about Generation Y and Social Entrepreneurship. Why do YOU think this movement is growing? — It is exciting to see so many people living their passions and being willing to work towards the changes they want to see in the world. I agree [...]
I have been blogging elsewhere recently, so I wanted to link some of them here. This blog post was written for The International Business Council (IBC) blog and can be found in it’s original form here. The IBC and PEPY Tours in Cambodia When running a start-up organization, you are always looking for volunteers, people [...]