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by Whitney Johnson | 12:00 PM February 4, 2013 While dreaming and disrupting has unfettered me in many ways, it has shackled me in others.
Why Innovators Love Constraints - Whitney Johnson
GENRE - La science apporte enfin une preuve pour étayer ce que nous savions déjà: toute cette histoire selon laquelle " les hommes viennent de Mars, les femmes de Vénus " est fausse. D’après une nouvelle étude de l’Université de Rochester , hommes et femmes ne possèderaient effectivement pas de caractéristiques psychologiques si distinctes que ça.
Les différences psychologiques entre hommes et femmes ne seraient pas évidentes
C'est le nouveau mot à la mode dans les cercles de la politique de la ville.
L'"empowerment", nouvel horizon de la politique de la ville
Tim Lehmann: Rebels Without a Cause? Beyond Heroic Social Entrepreneurship in Davos
The grand narrative of social entrepreneurship is everywhere: heroic individuals build innovative solutions to transform the texture of the world's social fabric.
My wife recently started an MBA program and at least half of her classmates are considering the entrepreneurship track over the mainstays of finance, accounting, and marketing. Excited by the Facebooks of the world, they all want to break free, be creative, solve problems, and work for themselves. One problem: they have no concrete ideas for a business.
Chuck Cohn: Million Dollar Ideas Make Money and Create Jobs Too
La "boîte à idées" sur la refondation de l'école attend sa déclinaison politique
Après trois mois de débats impliquant 800 personnalités, 300 heures d'ateliers et 120 réunions publiques, la concertation sur la "refondation de l'école" a accouché, vendredi 5 octobre, d'un rapport peu volumineux mais ambitieux.
What Kind of Misfit Are You? - Umair Haque
by Umair Haque | 9:43 AM August 4, 2011 Here's a confession that may surprise no one who regularly reads this blog: I'm a misfit. And I always have been. And having spent a few decades on this planet as a slightly octagonal peg facing an endless vista of square, machine-made holes, I've developed a hypothesis about achievement. It's this: great accomplishment usually takes the impertinence not to fit into the suffocating status quo. Consider the following.Big questions always strike unexpectedly, when our guard is down.
Moving Around Without Losing Your Roots - Gianpiero Petriglieri
"I want to be a social entrepreneur." I hear it nearly every day.
Not Everyone Should Be a Social Entrepreneur - Lara Galinsky
Breaking Through Social Entrepreneurship's Star System - Erica Williams
by Erica Williams | 12:00 PM September 5, 2012 Social entrepreneurship has been always both a gift and curse for me, a Millennial in the social change sector.by Anne Kreamer | 12:00 PM September 19, 2012 "Coworking" office spaces, leasable by the day or month (think RocketSpace in San Francisco or The Hive in Denver) are multiplying in cities all over the country. Demand is predicted to expand by as much as 40% in 2013 .
The Rise of Coworking Office Spaces - Anne Kreamer
Blavatnik School of Government opens for study
Policy 20 Sep 12 Some of the first group of students at the School (Toby Whiting)Morning Advantage: A Serious Attempt at "Pay What You Want" - Dana Rousmaniere
by Dana Rousmaniere | 7:07 AM September 11, 2012 North American restaurant chain Panera Bread is experimenting with a nonprofit variation, where the company donates a number of existing stores to its "Panera Cares" foundation. At these locations, any money made goes first to fund operations, and additional profits go to local charities.by Paul Bloom | 8:30 AM June 18, 2012 For a social entrepreneur with an innovative solution, the holy grail is scaling it —that is, taking it to a level where the new approach operates efficiently and effectively to achieve significant mitigation of a social problem.