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Drawing on his extensive career, John Marks provides a practitioner's guide to the underlying principles of social entrepreneurship.
List of contents
Prologue
1. Start from Vision
2. Be an Applied Visionary
3. On s’engage, et puis on voit
4. Keep Showing Up
5. Enroll Credible Supporters
6. Expect the Dunbar Factor
7. Make Yesable Propositions
8. Practice Aikido
9. Develop Effective Metaphors
10. Display Chutzpah
11. Cultivate Fingerspitzengefühl
12. Bringing It All Together
13. Moving On
Index
About the author
John Marks is the founder of the renowned peacebuilding organization Search for Common Ground, which was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2018. When he stepped down as its president after thirty-two years, the organization had a staff of six hundred full-time employees and offices in thirty-five countries. He is now the founder and managing director of Confluence International and a visiting scholar in peacebuilding and social entrepreneurship at Leiden University. Coauthor of the controversial New York Times best-seller The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence and the award-winning Search for the “Manchurian Candidate,” Marks also founded Common Ground Productions and has produced TV series promoting nonviolent coexistence in twenty-five countries.
Summary
Drawing on his extensive career, John Marks provides a practitioner’s guide to the underlying principles of social entrepreneurship.
