Creating agile, impactful organisations for business continuity. Step by step, supporting entrepreneurs and managers and the people they work with in changing their own behaviour for the sake of continuity in impactful business. That is what I call impact entrepreneurship and that is what I do.
One day I hope to hear a story of integrity from directors, managers and executives. Hearing them talk about their role in society and the work their organisation does for it. And that that actually happens!
Organisations are bursting with dreams, plans etc. Usually, little comes of them. There is a gap between what we want or actually should do and what we actually get done from it. That gap is called Intention Behaviour Gap. Bridging it requires a change in behaviour.
In change processes and also in business-as-usual, organisations persistently apply learned approaches. Harshly, they remain stuck in their beliefs of “this is how we have always done it” and “this is how it should be”. However, this convulsive behaviour about “how it works” has been producing sad results for decades.
Einstein once said, “you don’t solve problems with the same thinking that caused the problem”. I have read this cry countless times in change proposals and annual plans for business-as-usual. Only deliver ho-but! Don’t they want to or maybe people in organisations are East Indian deaf?
The approach in current thinking and management models is: “identify issue, after research, you draw up a thoughtful and thorough plan. Then, after the development phase, you implement and done”. The instrumental, procedural and command/control processes determine the way of working, always with a financial-economic goal. These are “that’s how it should be” or one-size-fits-all approaches.
Impact entrepreneurship is based on human dignity, building trust, equality with the aim of getting satisfaction from your work. You get that by enjoying your work. When being able to work enjoyably, people want to make something beautiful with what they have in them, to have meaning for customers, society and others.
Each person does that in their own unique way. Every person wants to do or help work, sometimes alone, sometimes in a team, sometimes in a large organisation. Every person and organisation wants to contribute in this way to a customer, to another department, to society. This human organising, by working together with other people using processes and tools to organise work-doing well. So delivering a smoothly running organisation of daily work in which change processes are properly incorporated and which fulfils annual plans. In this way, daily work realises the desired results. You achieve this with impact entrepreneurship.
Impact entrepreneurship is an alternative to the one-size-fits-all management approaches still used. Impact entrepreneurship has been developed in the practice of daily work in many organisations. Therefore, it is applicable in every work situation.
