Week 11

     

Changing the World

         This week we touch on how entrepreneurship might help the world and building a little bit of heaven on earth. Social conscious entrepreneurship isn't all that different from entrepreneurship in the what that gets done.  This in mind the lesson shows some examples of different companies who tried to make the world a better place. 

This week video were about hunting the right cause and make ti personal. How to make the community a better place. I liked the Gandhi Talisman story :  This is an answer that Gandhi gave when he was leading the resistance movement against the British, and people would come to him and say, "Mahatma, how do I know if what I'm doing is good?"  What is the ultimate test of whether what I'm doing is good or not? He said, "I will give you a talisman. I will give you an amulet, a charm that will protect you from ever making a mistake." That talisman was this. He said, "Before you act, consider the face of the poorest and most destitute person that you have ever chance to meet. Remember that person and his life and his circumstances, and then ask yourself if that which you are about to do will benefit that person. And if it will, you're doing the right thing. You're safe. You're protected from making a mistake. And if it won't, think again. 

I think its hard to get the world a bit fair and to reduce the gap between the poor and the rich. But we can try it to make our part and some time not to think for our self. Its important too the vision that a company has. This vision is important in helping people realize what they are doing and for what reasons and is a vision that need to be scaled in the process of your journey.