“Muhammad Yunus” Alfred Nobel Prize Winner”.
It all started with $ 27 bet. “I wanted to find a solution to a problem, and I wanted to do whatever it takes to end that problem”. These were the words of Nobel Prize Muhammad Yunus.
In the mid-1970s Bangladesh was racked with poverty and famine.Greedy money lenders victimized local villagers who wanted to start small businesses. In one village, Muhammad Yunus counted 42 individuals that needed just $ 27 to break out of poverty and gain their freedom. As he invested in them, in one year time, they were able to pay him back and start their future. Today, not only Muhammas bank Grameen Banks accounts more than $ 5 billion, but also it has created a whole new movement in Bamgladesh of shared value.
The individual that sees that there is something missing in the world and sees the opportunity to make a change, is a social entrepreneur.
These society change agents who varies from Mother Teresa to Nobel Prize Muhammad Yunus, are ambitious, mission driven, strategic, and resourceful, and result oriented individuals.
“Human Progress has been strong and quite threatening in the last 100 years”.
The decision makers of today do not really act in the best interest of the public. They act in theirs and today we are facing climate change problems and droughts. Unless drastic end happen, change won’t occur. As we partially brought upon us our own fate, isn’t it time we move from long capitalist view of maximizing self-profit into community shared valued?
We need non- linear change to address our serious current problems. This however will only happen if there is shared value. We seem to know there is a solution to our problem, but we don’t know how to interconnect them or we don’t have the will to. Today that’s when the world needs social entrepreneur. The world needs those rare innovators that will empower communities to learn, create, design and participate in the world sovereignty.
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