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Social Capital Series 1:HARNESSING THE POWER OF SOCIAL INNOVATION AND SOCIAL FINANCE FOR GAME-CHANGING IMPACT
05 June 2017
“If you count all the time I’m focused on our mission, that’s basically my whole life, (...) I spend most of my
time thinking about how to connect the world and serve our community better, but a lot of that time isn’t
in our office or meeting with people or doing whatyou’d call real work, (...) I take a lot of time just to read
and think about things by myself.”
- Mark ZuckerbergChairman and CEO, Facebook
“Do something you are passionate about, do something youlove, (...) If you are doing something you are passionate
about, you are just naturally going to succeed, and a lot of other things will happen that you don’t need to worry about.
There are so many opportunities and choices anyone canmake about what they do. Do something you are passionate
about. Life is too short.”
General Motors CEO Mary Barra
It’s better to own 5% of something than50% of nothing.
And that goes for ideas as well as businesses.
Taking people out of their comfort zone is a bad idea. Take them to the edge of
their comfort zone and then invite themto take one more step.
Spend less time doing, and more time thinking, creating and reading.
Do you really need all those reports? Do we need a presentation or will three bullet points do?
Stop being connected and unproductive.
You need nature and play, not screens to have our best ideas and do our best
work.
You make 35 000 decisions every day, but you can only make 10 really good
ones.
Obama made decisions with one word: Agree, Disagree, Discuss