Raúl Gorrín The Entrepreneur-humanist

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martes, 10 de mayo de 2016

Raúl Gorrín: What is social entrepreneurship?

Social entrepreneurship refers to the practice of combining innovation, resourcefulness and opportunity to address critical social and environmental challenges.

Social entrepreneurs focus on transforming systems and practices that are the root causes of poverty, marginalization, environmental deterioration and accompanying loss of human dignity. In so doing, they may set up for-profit or not-for-profit organizations, and in either case, their primary objective is to create sustainable systems change.

The key concepts of social entrepreneurship are innovation, market orientation and systems change.

Social entrepreneurs are drivers of change. Together with institutions, networks, and communities, social entrepreneurs create solutions that are efficient, sustainable, transparent, and have measurable impact.

Social entrepreneurs are united by their ability to:

Adopt a mission to create and sustain social value (not just commercial value)
Recognise and relentlessly pursue new opportunities to serve that mission
Engage in a process of continuous innovation, adaptation, and learning
Act boldly without being limited by resources currently in hand, and
Exhibit a heightened sense of accountability to the constituencies served and for the outcomes created.

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martes, 3 de mayo de 2016

Raul Gorrín: Entrepreneur with a social conscience

Raul Gorrín. Socially conscious entrepreneurs are those whose business projects generate economic benefits while contributing in areas such as health, education and human development. Humanists entrepreneurs add value with their vision of your business that brings more than just a product or service. Their aim is to also contribute in a positive way to society.

Here I share with you a report of Success in a Changing World, presented by Chivas Regal magazine which states that employers are far more satisfied if allowed a social conscience. These are people who often come from communities in poverty or inequality and are sick of it. They don't just complain about the hardships of the communities like those they grew up in, they are willing to act, to make real change, make a difference.

Social entrepreneurs are real transformers. They know that things can get better. They do not wait for someone else to solve problems. They think of possible solutions and act on them.

Social entrepreneurs usually operate through startups with limited resources. They have little money and staff shortages to start and maintain their projects, so they must develop the creativity needed to do more with less.

The key to a company is making money, and this is no exception in social enterprises. Therefore, these entrepreneurs know how to create models in addition to promoting the society and contribute to the environment are profitable for its founders and investors.

Both the model and its strategies and objectives are focused on improving the quality of life of people or reduce or solve problems such as global warming and the low level of education of a community.

Being an entrepreneur is not easy; less even when the goal is as ambitious as a change in the status quo or the status of a town. So startups and companies with social or environmental approach must have strong, able to motivate and inspire the team and potential customers and investors leaders.

While a business can begin to address the needs of a local market, successful social enterprises are those that develop models that can be replicated elsewhere under different conditions.

A company with real social vocation ensures that all participants in the supply chain will win the final product and obtain benefits that favor its development. A social entrepreneur goes beyond himself. It is more than looking good for their employees, partners, customers, suppliers and investors.

While social entrepreneurship often part of the frustration and nonconformity of some members of society, so optimism is based on the belief that the market can generate positive changes. That is why a social entrepreneur sees the "glass half full"; You know that with effort and creativity real problems can be solved. They do not see problems but they see opportunities for real improvement and change for the better.

Entrepreneurs must always be willing to take risks (financial, personal, etc.) to launch and maintain your project. This quality is probably more entrenched among social entrepreneurs, who know that the challenges are great. They have an awareness that with effort, dedication and passion anything is possible. Raúl Gorrín.

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martes, 26 de abril de 2016

Raúl Gorrín: Social Entrepreneurs Commitment (CSE)

Social Entrepreneurs are individuals with innovative solutions to society’s most pressing social problems. They are ambitious and persistent, tackling major social issues and offering new ideas for wide-scale change.

Rather than leaving societal needs to the government or business sectors, social entrepreneurs find what is not working and solve the problem by changing the system, spreading the solution, and persuading entire societies to move in different directions.

Social entrepreneurs often seem to be possessed by their ideas, committing their lives to changing the direction of their field. They are visionaries, but also realists, and are ultimately concerned with the practical implementation of their vision above all else.

Social entrepreneurs present user-friendly, understandable, and ethical ideas that engage widespread support in order to maximize the number of citizens that will stand up, seize their idea, and implement it. Leading social entrepreneurs are mass recruiters of local changemakers— role models proving that citizens who channel their ideas into action can do almost anything.

Why "Social" Entrepreneur?

Just as entrepreneurs change the face of business, social entrepreneurs act as the change agents for society, seizing opportunities others miss to improve systems, invent new approaches, and create solutions to change society for the better. While a business entrepreneur might create entirely new industries, a social entrepreneur develops innovative solutions to social problems and then implements them on a large scale.

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martes, 19 de abril de 2016

Raúl Gorrín: Ted Turner said: “You should set goals beyond your reach so you always have something to live for.”

By Raúl Gorrín. Ted Turner was 24 when his father killed himself. "He went against everything he taught me: 'Be courageous and hang in there,'" Turner said. His father had just he had overextended himself with a $4 million purchase that expanded his company, Turner Outdoor Advertising, into the South's largest billboard company. Ted was to take over his father’s company. A company so badly overextended that his dad saw no way out. “I was gonna go broke if I didn't get things turned around real fast.” He had to leave college a few months earlier because his dad refused to pay his tuition. Before Ted was forced to leave college his dad sent him a letter calling him a jackass.

Despite all the negative feedback that was part of Ted’s life , he had an inborn positive outlook. Here was a 24 year old handed a company that looked to be quickly going under. Ted’s attitude was, “I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.” “Life is a game. Money is how we keep score.” So he was not going to let the big dollar amount of debt scare him, it was only a number, he told himself. Raúl Gorrín

So this 24 year old had his plan and his perspective mapped out. He was not his dad who gave into his fear of the large debt. His dad quit and he would not. “You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win”, he is quoted as saying. Over the next few years he made turned the company around to the point where at the age of 31, he bought his first television station and within six years, he had created satellites first super station, CNN.

How did he create such wealth from what would have caused most of us to go bankrupt. It was an attitude of setting goals for himself. Goals that most would have called impossible. To Ted, he had no doubt that he could achieve those goals and the journey to such success became fun for him. “You should set goals beyond your reach so you always have something to live for.” Raúl Gorrín.

With a healthy positive attitude towards life, we could achieve most if not all of our dreams. The problem is most of us will give up when things seem impossible. There is a story that the first time Ted Turner called Jane Fonda out on a date, it was a bad time in her life. She told him so and that she needed time for herself. She figured she would get rid of him nicely by saying, “call me in six months and we will see.” Most of us would take the hint and forget about the date. But Ted Turner put it in his calendar six months to that day. He had no doubt that she would say Yes. So he did indeed call her six months later. A short while later she became his wife and the main love of his life. Raúl Gorrín.

“I've never run into a guy who could win at the top level in anything today and didn't have the right attitude, didn't give it everything he had, at least while he was doing it; wasn't prepared and didn't have the whole program worked out.”, said Ted Turner. Attitude was everything to him. There is a story from his family and neighbors that knew them at the time, that Ted’s first word was pretty. That is the way he saw life and that was the attitude that formed his amazing success.

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martes, 12 de abril de 2016

Raúl Gorrín: Social Entrepreneurs Commitment

All entrepreneurs are committed to creating value, for social entrepreneurs value creation encompasses not simply economic value but also social or public value, their overarching purpose being to make a significant social contribution.

Just as entrepreneurship is rooted in a sense of opportunity so too social entrepreneurship is rooted in a sense that the limits of the actual system, is creating innovative opportunities for meeting those needs of the people.

Needs that are best met by social entrepreneurs committed to starting and building organizations that have a demonstrable commitment to creating social as distinct from purely economic value; organizations that make a difference to the communities and societies from which they spring. Over the next decade this is a revolution that will transform many of the institutions of our society and re-define our understanding of entrepreneurship.

Where business entrepreneurs transform industries, social entrepreneurs transform society. They see a problem - poverty, hunger, injustice - and work to find an accessible, ethical, and long-term solution.

Why it’s important

It may seem idealistic, but social entrepreneurism is actually quite practical. It marries concepts from the nonprofit and for-profit worlds to improve conditions for people on local and global levels. In doing so, it also creates jobs, stimulates economies, and leads to the development of new goods and services.

The qualities of a social entrepreneur

Social entrepreneurs are passionate, creative, and determined. They are motivated by an inner drive to elevate their communities - to pitch in and solve problems.

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martes, 5 de abril de 2016

Raúl Gorrín: Humanist entrepreneurs are people motivated to contribute to social change

The individual is a change agent for a humane business society

The humanist entrepreneur has migrated from the world of philanthropy to the world of business, such that social business entrepreneurs make the marketplace more interesting and competitive and they can become very powerful players in national economy.

Humanism offers potential alternatives: as a philosophy, an approach to life, and a movement it focuses on creating a human-centred, value-oriented society.

In practice, there are already examples of humanists using entrepreneurial as a means to foster genuine life-serving developments, while topics such as business ethics, social entrepreneurship, the so called fourth sector, and corporate social responsibility continuously deepen their footprint in management education and research.

Humanist entrepreneurs are people motivated to contribute to social change. They employ business methods to achieve social objectives, and therefore represent a blueprint for humanistic business. There is scope for strategically reorganizing a traditional corporation to serve authentic human needs.

The implications for managers and businesses

The implications of humanism for economic activities and businesses are clear-cut. Putting people first in business organizations would allow companies to benefit strongly from increased employee commitment and motivation.

We see the potential for real change towards a more humane business environment. Raising the issues about humanism and business has the potential itself to generate change: change in individuals, in organizations, and in systems.

Managers who see the sense in humanism in business can lead from the front, accepting their responsibility for reshaping our economic system and business organizations, for the benefit of society and working lives.

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