Women social entrepreneurs

As a Social Entrepreneur, I often look to people who have made a big impact on social issues for inspiration and advice. One of the very first books I read, was Business Unusual from Body Shop founder Anita Roddick. I was lucky, I read this before I even learnt about conventional business properly. I credit this book for keeping me outside the box.

More recently, I read Richard Branson's Screw Business as Usual, it was refreshing to see the book start by talking about the Arab Awakening and the War on Drugs. In this book that has been highly rated by entrepreneurs, Richard shows clearly how doing social good is good for business.

Business (especially social business) does not happen in a vacuum and while we can't solve all problems we can certainly have a stab at those within our circle of influence. Steven Covey's book, Seven Habits of Highly a Effective People, is a great read for learning about how to expand our influence.

I am a #womansocialentrepreneur.