Great article: “Freeing The Social Entrepreneur

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a feature story from The Stanford Social Innovation Review
“Freeing The Social Entrepreneur”
Chantal Laurie Below & Kimberly Dasher Tripp

Social entrepreneurs are often reluctant to relinquish control and create strong leadership teams. Unless they make this important transition, the organizations entrepreneurs worked hard to create are unlikely to scale or have the desired impact.

The Leadership Team
Once the social entrepreneur has spent time in honest self-reflection and frank board discussions, it’s time to create a new leadership team. The entrepreneur must approach leadership team development with the same thoughtfulness and determination that he applies to creating his vision or he risks making the wrong hires. Our research indicates that there are five essential leadership roles in an organization that is ready to scale up. These roles may or may not be filled by five separate people; in some cases multiple roles can be filled by one person. The five roles are the evangelist, scaling partner, connector, program strategist, and realist.

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