Manifesto of a Non-Profit CEO: Seth Godin has posted a powerful manifesto by a guy who is CEO of a non-profit out to change the world. His name is Sasha Dichter, Director of Business Development at the Acumen Fund. Acumen Fund is global non-profit venture capital fund that invests in enterprises fighting poverty in the developing world. e.g....."Look around you at great leaders who you know or respect. What do they spend their time doing? They are infused with drive, passion, vision, commitment, and energy. They walk through the world dissatisfied with the status quo....
Godin's Tribes Book e-Book: Seth Godin has posted a new e-book (free pdf) for his book TRIBES: We Need You to Lead Us.
Blog to Change Your Perspective: Seth Godin at an American Express Conference:
Blogging is free. It doesn’t matter if anyone reads it. What matters is the humility that comes from writing it. What matters is the metacognition of thinking about what you’re gonna say. How do you explain yourself to the few employees or your cat or whoever’s gonna look at it? How do you force yourself to describe in three paragraphs why you did something? How to do you respond out loud?…This has become such a micropublishing platform that basically you’re doing it for yourself, to force yourself to become part of the conversation, even if it’s just [pinches fingers] that big. And that posture change changes an enormous amount.
