By Roger L. Martin & Sally Osberg — 2007
Social entrepreneurship is attracting growing amounts of talent, money, and attention, but along with its increasing popularity has come less certainty about what exactly a social entrepreneur is and does.
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By showing up and consistently performing, your results speak for themselves.
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