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Adding Selflessness to Economics
Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus shares how social business can transform capitalism
ATLANTA - Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus has helped establish more than 50 companies in his lifetime, yet he doesn't own any of them.
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The Co-operators is fuelling the push to a more sustainable future by engaging the passionIMPACT of a collective group of Canadian youth through its program, IMPACT! The Co-operators Youth Program for Sustainability Leadership. Read More 
ANDE Grows Small Businesses to Create Thriving Ecosystems
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The Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs (ANDE) is seeing rapid growth, showing there is an interest in supporting small and growing businesses (SGBs) in emerging markets, says Jenny Everett. Read More 
What We're Thinking

 

Cultivating Conditions for Different Behaviour
If you want different behaviour, you have to provide different opportunities.

This is a point Clay Shirky makes in Cognitive Surplus. Muhammad Yunus shares a similar message with us in his recent interview with Axiom News.

If we want different behaviour then, what opportunities need to be created, and how can we design those opportunities?

By creating a space for social business, Yunus is breathing new possibility into our ways of working and global economic system. At the heart of the social business concept is a social purpose. Once a social purpose is decided upon a business is created to get the job done.
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Stories At Work

 

Create a Narrative of Possibility by Adding a New Question: Peggy Holman
Journalists are well-positioned to lead this change, says thought leader
Peggy Holman has seen first-hand how adding a new question to the five traditionally asked by journalists can spark new energy and a different direction, and it's this question, she's proposing, that can help all of us, journalists or not, create a new narrative of possibility.

Peggy, co-founder of a national coalition for a new kind of journalism, Journalism That Matters, recalls asking this very question of a mother who attended a media conference seeking to bring attention to her son's troubling situation.

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