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It's a terrible
business
model.
That became, as it were, a way of confronting large businesses in the
business
of wasting food, and exposing, most importantly, to the public, that when we're talking about food being thrown away, we're not talking about rotten stuff, we're not talking about stuff that's beyond the pale.
I study prejudice, and I teach at a competitive
business
school, so it was inevitable that I would become interested in power dynamics.
So
business
schools have been struggling with this gender grade gap.
And while we were doing it, I realized that there weren't a lot of businesses that were viable and started by women, and so maybe I should try to run a business, too.
I also found out that the bakery was nothing like a business, that, in fact, it was a classic charity run by a well-intentioned person, who essentially spent 600 dollars a month to keep these 20 women busy making little crafts and baked goods, and living on 50 cents a day, still in poverty.
I said, "Look, we get rid of the charity side, and we run this as a
business
and I'll help you."
Yes, we ran this as a business, but someone needed to pay the philanthropic support that came into the training, and the management support, the strategic advice and, maybe most important of all, the access to new contacts, networks and new markets.
Acumen's been working with ABE for the past year, year and a half, both on looking at a new
business
plan, and what does expansion look like, helping with management support and helping to do term sheets and raise capital.
And even when we explained that if ABE goes away, all those 7,500 jobs go away too, we sometimes have this bifurcation between
business
and the social.
And Tata had gotten its start as a communications
business
when they bought two cables, one across the Atlantic and one across the Pacific, and proceeded to add pieces onto them, until they had built a belt around the world, which means they will send your bits to the East or the West.
I'd like to start, if it's possible, with a test, because I do
business
stuff, so it's important that we focus on outcomes.
But basically, what they do is, they switched all the rules round, so that the way to successfully run a business, an organization, or even a country, has been deleted, flipped, and it's a completely new — you think I'm joking, don't you — there's a completely new set of rules in operation.
When I realized the power of this new world, I quit my safe teaching job, and set up a virtual
business
school, the first in the world, in order to teach people how to make this happen, and I used some of my learnings about some of the rules which I'd learned on myself.
Talk to them about the kind of policies and institutions that are necessary for them to expand a scale and scope of
business
so that it can collect more tax revenues from them.
Ladies and gentlemen, the most enterprising people in Africa cannot find opportunities to trade and to work in the private sector because the institutional and policy environment is hostile to
business.
Traditional
business
wisdom holds that trust is earned by predictable behavior, but when everything is consistent and standardized, how do you create meaningful experiences?
In the 17th century, a woman named Giulia Tofana had a very successful perfume
business.
I generally give a whole lecture on the impact of women on the
business
community.
Fast forward four years later, after having written a 40-page
business
plan on the cell phone, having written my patent on the cell phone, I'm the youngest patent-holder in the country, and — ("No more bathing!")
My wife replied, "None of your business."
The profession is the family doctor of enterprise, the family doctor of business, who sits with you in your house, at your kitchen table, at the cafe, and helps you find the resources to transform your passion into a way to make a living.
Peter Drucker was a professor of philosophy before becoming involved in business, and this is what Peter Drucker says: "Planning is actually incompatible with an entrepreneurial society and economy."
So we can create the community where we have facilitators who come from a small
business
background sitting in cafes, in bars, and your dedicated buddies who will do to you, what somebody did for this gentleman who talks about this epic, somebody who will say to you, "What do you need?
In fact, it was teeming with smart, ambitious men whose
business
instincts were in many cases as sharp as those of the CEOs who had wined and dined me six months earlier when I was a rising star in the Missouri Senate.
Now, 95 percent of the guys that I was locked up with had been drug dealers on the outside, but when they talked about what they did, they talked about it in a different jargon, but the
business
concepts that they talked about weren't unlike those that you'd learn in a first year MBA class at Wharton: promotional incentives, you never charge a first-time user, focus-grouping new product launches, territorial expansion.
But there's no training, nothing to prepare them for that, no rehabilitation at all in prison, no one to help them write a
business
plan, figure out a way to translate the
business
concepts they intuitively grasp into legal enterprises, no access to the Internet, even.
This is serious
business.
The biggest lesson I learned was many years later when I went to Beverly Hills and I ran into a talent agent who looked at me up and down and said I don't look like I have any experience to be working in this
business.
You think black entertainers have it hard finding work in this
business?
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