He didn’t fit the stereotype of a man who put his life at risk on a regular basis. He didn’t seem like a person who would expose and then tirelessly work to break the faults of his own cultural system.
It was a chance meeting. He didn’t command attention, much less seek it. When I met Kailash Satyarthi, I mainly noticed his quiet, gentle presence. Then they played his video from “The New Heros” series…
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Is Business an Uncalculating Force of Nature?
The following excerpt from a Fast Company magazine article was one of the key elements in causing me to commit to working in this sector. Fast Company is the magazine for a generation of business leaders with high expectations for their companies — and even higher expectations for themselves. After reading this article, I hope you will catch a vision of the opportunity before us.
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Sometimes, you have the right words to capture a thought and communicate it. Yet, at other times, it is best to use some else’s words to communicate what you are thinking and feeling. I feel like the following two paragraphs from Growing Opportunity: Entrepreneurial Solutions to Insoluble Problems from SustainAbility capture the heart of what I would say is my underlying motivation for working in this sector.
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How long has it been since you were surprised by hope?
How do you approach the world’s problems? As you browsed the morning newspaper, when did you last feel a sense that the world was becoming a better place? That the forces propelling the future were on the right track? That the power of imagination was serving those with healing ideals rather than those with darker agendas? Overwhelmed as we are by images of bad news, it is easy to tacitly embrace the notion that humanity’s only possible trajectory is downward.
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Can we “Do well, by doing good”?
These questions, and many more, will be the focus of “Marketing for Good”.
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Who would be interested in Marketing for Good?
The focus of this blog is set within an emerging sector of the global economy known as the Social Sector. The term “civil society organization” (CSO) has been used by a growing number of organizations, such as The Center for the Study of Global Governance. The term “citizen sector organization” (CSO) has also been advocated to describe the sector — as one of citizens, for citizens — by organizations such as Ashoka: Innovators for the Public.
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