Be the Solution : How Entrepreneurs and Conscious Capitalists Can Solve All the Worlds Problems.
Title:
Be the Solution : How Entrepreneurs and Conscious Capitalists Can Solve All the Worlds Problems.
Author:
Strong, Michael.
ISBN:
9780470488133
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (403 pages)
Contents:
Be the Solution: How Entrepreneurs and Conscious Capitalists Can Solve All the World's Problems -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Part One: The Entrepreneurial Spirit and How to Liberate It -- Chapter 1: Context -- The Importance of Progress -- Peace Is Breaking Out All Over -- Poverty Vanishing More Quickly than Ever Before -- The End of Environmental Destruction? -- Health and Well-being in the Developed World -- Goodness and Beauty as the Growth Industries of the Twenty-First Century -- Getting a Perspective on Liberating the Entrepreneurial Spirit for Good -- Making the World a Better Place through Entrepreneurship and Markets -- The FLOW Ideal: A World of Healthy, Happy People Doing Good through Meaningful Fun -- A World of Flow -- Doing Good through Meaningful Fun -- Chapter 2: The Entrepreneur as Hero -- Chapter 3: The Opportunity: The Creative Powers of a Free Civilization -- Part Two: Conscious Capitalism -- Chapter 4: Creating a New Paradigm for Business -- Voluntary Exchange -- The Purpose of Business -- Great Companies Have Great Purposes -- The Paradox of Profits -- Stockholders Maintain Legal Control -- Whole Foods Market's Conscious Capitalism -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5: Social Business Entrepreneurs Are the Solution -- Social Business Entrepreneurs Can Play a Big Role in the Market -- Social Stock Market -- How to Make a Start -- Chapter 6: Business as Service: " Doing Well to Do Good" -- Chapter 7: Leveraging Entrepreneurship for Social Change -- Women Make the Economy Go Round -- This Little Piglet Went to . . . Save a Child from Slavery -- Part Three: What Do We Need to Do So That Entrepreneurs and Conscious Capitalists Can Solve All the World's Problems? -- Chapter 8: Solving All Environmental Problems -- How Property Rights Create Sustainable Fisheries.
Why Encouraging Changes in Values Won't Be Enough -- How Environmental Righteousness Prevents Progress on Achieving Environmental Solutions -- Why We Need to Remove Environmental Assets from Government Control -- Environmental Trusts: A Property Rights Solution Beloved by Environmentalists -- The Transition from Environmental Righteousness to Transpartisan Coalition Building -- Green Tax Shifts as a More Immediate Solution -- The Unlimited Resource -- Chapter 9: Eliminate Global Poverty -- Mass Wealth Creation, Leading to Mass Poverty Alleviation, by Means of Providing Broader Access to the Entrepreneur's Toolkit -- Economic Freedom as the Means of Economic Development -- A Friendly Wager to Alleviate Global Poverty -- Chapter 10: Is Economic Freedom for Everyone? -- Chapter 11: Can Entrepreneurs Help Us Improve Our Understanding of the World? -- Prediction Markets as Reputation System and Research Tool -- Chapter 12: Improving Health, Happiness, and Well-Being -- Public Housing and the Tuition Tax Deduction instead of Public Schools and the Mortgage Interest Deduction -- A New Vision of Education as Habituation and Cultural Creation -- A Practical Approach to an Idealistic New Social Vision -- The Challenges We Face -- Transformative Cultures as a Solution to Public Health and Environmental Problems -- The Power of Culture -- A Market in Cultural Innovation in order to Help the Poor -- The Idea of Cultural Innovation -- A Vision for the Future -- Part Four: Living a Life of FLOW -- Chapter 13: The Upward Flow of Human Development-Maps of the Terrain -- Abraham Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs -- How Does One Go about Self-Actualizing? -- Emergent Deep Value Systems and Spiral Dynamics -- Spiral Dynamics Overview -- Supporting the Entrepreneurial Shift -- The Five Bottom Lines -- Moving Forward -- Chapter 14: Areté and the Entrepreneur.
The Attitude Principle -- The Vision Principle -- The Self-Awareness Principle -- The Goals Principle -- The Action Principle -- The Energy Principle -- The Wisdom Principle -- The Love Principle -- The Courage Principle -- The Attitude Principle -- The Vision Principle -- The Self-Awareness Principle -- The Goals Principle -- The Action Principle -- The Energy Principle -- The Wisdom Principle -- The Love Principle -- The Courage Principle -- Chapter 15: The Creation of Conscious Cultures in Support of Human Flourishing -- Chapter 16: Liberating the Entrepreneurial Spirit for Good -- What Do We Mean by "Liberating the Entrepreneurial Spirit for Good"? -- What Are the Conditions that Foster Liberation of the Entrepreneurial Spirit for Good? -- What Are the Factors that Constrain the Entrepreneurial Spirit for Good? -- What Can We Do to Overcome These Challenges and Constraints? -- Chapter 17: The FLOW Vision for the Twenty-First Century -- Act I: A Tale of Two Activists (A Vision for the Here and Now) -- Act II: The Global Consequences of FLOW Activism from Today through 2040 -- Act III: A Concrete Vision of a School in 2060 as a Result of the FLOW Activism through 2040 -- About the Contributors -- Index.
Abstract:
Praise for Be the Solution "In the past, many believed you either went into 'public service' to do good, or you 'went into business' to make money. Few realized that the long-term success of business depends on serving people, not making money. Few realized that perhaps the best way to serve the public was through free enterprise. Whole Foods Market founder John Mackey, visionary thinker Michael Strong, micro lender Muhammad Yunus, and a few others understand these truths. Be the Solution is the best single book to read to understand the emerging ways in which entrepreneurs can change the world." -Gary Hoover, serial entrepreneur, founder of Hoover's Business Information Service, Hooversworld.com "Michael Strong speaks the truth. A must-read for our new American government." -Sam Wyly, founder, Green Mountain Energy; author of 1,000 Dollars and an Idea "This book is totally fantastic. Treat your mind to a feast. Use it to tune your vision towards what really works." -Charles Harper, Senior Executive VP, Chief Strategist, John Templeton Foundation "Perhaps more than ever before, young people today are motivated by the desire to make the world a better place. Unfortunately, many have little idea about how to do it, and their educational studies provide them with little direction. In contrast, this book is a road map about how we can get from where we are to where we want to be-to a more peaceful, more prosperous, and more environmentally sound world. Plus, it is exciting, uplifting, and adventurous. Indeed, it provides the recipe for a better world." -Dr. James Gwartney, coauthor of Economic Freedom of the World: 2007 Annual Report; Gus A. Stavros Eminent Scholar Chair at Florida State University "This is a very thoughtful and timely book that asks us to look around-and to look within-the amazing opportunities that entrepreneurship offers to the
world. I recommend this book to anyone interested in finding solutions to the current crisis." -Giancarlo Ibarguen, Executive President, Universidad Francisco Marroquin "At last, a book about the heart of capitalism as a force for creating good in the world for solving many of our tough societal problems. I hope our political leaders read it." -R. Edward Freeman, Olsson Professor of Business Administration, Academic Director, Business Roundtable Institute for Corporate Ethics, University of Virginia.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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