quest for greatness!

It seems only fearless achieve greatness. Everyone else is always looking forward to being great. Stopped only by the fear of failure or something unknown! Quest for greatness is never ending. But…

You achieve greatness
when you are oblivious of the dignity
of those above you,
and make those below you
oblivious of yours.
When you are neither haughty with the humble
nor humble with the haughty!

Being fearless and purely duty-bound behavior will make anyone great, like our guard out here:

A recruit was assigned to guard the entrance to the army camp and was given instructions to let no car pass if it did not have a special pennant.

He had an occasion to stop a car bearing a General who promptly told his driver to ignore the sentry and drive on. Whereupon the recruit stepped forward, rifle at the ready, and calmly said, "Pardon me, sir, but I’m new to this. Whom do I shoot? You, sir, or the driver?

It is time to be a sentry of self set principles of life – to be truly passionate = self imposed discipline to achieve something!

Good to stop the quest and start the journey!

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Social Enterprise Business Model!

 

A business model describes the rationale of how an organization creates, delivers, and captures value – economic, social, or other forms of value. The process of business model design is part of business strategy.

Though most part of the desire for social business starts with and gets driven by ‘passion’, fruitful journey requires an intuitive approach to find and assemble all pieces of the puzzle – continuously!

Business model is a great tool for describing core aspects of the business, including purpose, offerings, strategies, infrastructure, organizational structures, trading practices, and operational processes & policies. In reality, as more and more businesses are driven by opportunity or accidental successes, business model representation hardly exists!

Since every aspect of a commercial business is centered around ‘money’, P&L sheets + Cash Flow analysis drives business models – mostly defined on-demand! It is hard to find a cross section of employee base, including several business leaders – that can articulate the business purpose and/or business model of the organization!

For a social enterprise, clarity, common understanding and continuous communication of the purpose  are very important elements of design for sustainability. Else mortality of social enterprises will be alarmingly high!

Maintaining a visible description of the entire business of the enterprise helps in keeping this risk at large. It will also help in measuring and modifying individual elements to improve effectiveness of the organization.

Alex Osterwalder offers the most simplest and focused approach to building business models for Social Enterprises. Check it out and use appropriately…
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Check this one for a detailed analysis of business model relating the critical aspects of customer development into Social Entrepreneurship: Customer Development and Social Entrepreneurship

 

Social Enterprise Business Model!

A business model describes the  rationale of how an organization creates, delivers, and captures value – economic, social, or other forms of value. The process of business model design is part of  business strategy.

Though most part of the desire for social business starts with and gets driven by ‘passion’, fruitful journey requires an intuitive approach to find and assemble all pieces of the puzzle – continuously!

Business model is a great tool for describing core aspects of the business, including purpose, offerings, strategies, infrastructure, organizational structures, trading practices, and operational processes & policies. In reality, as more and more businesses are driven by opportunity or accidental successes, business model representation hardly exists!

Since every aspect of a commercial business is centered around ‘money’, P&L sheets + Cash Flow analysis drives business models – mostly defined on-demand! It is hard to find a cross section of employee base, including several business leaders – that can articulate the business purpose and/or business model of the organization!

For a social enterprise, clarity, common understanding and continuous communication of the purpose  are very important elements of design for sustainability. Else mortality of social enterprises will be alarmingly high!

Maintaining a visible description of the entire business of the enterprise helps in keeping this risk at large. It will also help in measuring and modifying individual elements to improve effectiveness of the organization.

 Alex Osterwalder offers the most simplest and focused approach to building business models for Social Enterprises. Check it out and use appropriately…

 

Business Models Beyond Profit – Social Entrepreneurship Lecture http://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=2009-05-18-bremen-bmsocialentrepreneurshippdfweb-090825094001-phpapp02&rel=0&stripped_title=business-models-beyond-profit-social-entrepreneurship-lecture-wise-etienne-eichenberger-iqbal-quadir-grameen-bank-grameen-phone&userName=Alex.Osterwalder

Update 11/2/10:

Check this one for a detailed analysis of business model relating the critical aspects of customer development into Social Entrepreneurship:  Customer Development and Social Entrepreneurship

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