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Let It Go: Building a Global Social Enterprise by Empowering Your Employees

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Summary

Rupert Scofield explains how to build, motivate, and manage a team that both embraces the mission and delivers financial results, how to mitigate risk, and how to solve interpersonal conflicts.

Bio

Rupert Scofield is a social entrepreneur with 40 years of experience working in developing countries. He is the CEO of FINCA, a global microfinance organization operating in 23 countries across 4 continents with over one million clients. He tells the story of FINCA in the book The Social Entrepreneur’s Handbook: How to Start, Build and Run a Business that Improves the World (McGraw-Hill, 2011).

About the conference

The aim was to ensure that inspiration turned to action. We want people to make changes in their workplace – changes that make them happier, that help the business innovate, respond and grow, and that overcome specific obstacles or blocks. They could be small. They might even fail. That’s OK.

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Oct 10, 2014

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