When fishing isn’t enough: solving social problems through entrepreneurship. Launching the Sandbox Club @ The Hub. Social Entrepreneurs Must Achieve Not Survive (September 15, 2011) | Opinion Blog. The sector needs to shift the definition of success from organizations that survive to organizations that actually achieve their missions. Every week, I read about another social entrepreneur contemplating closing down business due to the recession. Imagine a world where that could be good news. In fact, imagine a world where on the same day a social entrepreneur launched their organization, they closed it down. Farfetched? In his book The 7 Habits of Highly Successfully People, Stephen Covey says to “plan with the end in mind.” When social entrepreneurs came on the scene in a big way in the ’90s, they were reformers not institutions. Businesses are built to last; social entrepreneur efforts should not be—they should shed light on necessary reforms, offer solutions, and change systems.
Social entrepreneurs’ priorities typically shift over time. 1. Over time, the mission creeps away from tackling the injustice to institutionalizing the model the company created. 1. 1.
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