Muhammad Yunus tells us his exciting story of revelations and puzzling experiences with officials and how to follow one's path for transforming the world.
Known as the 'Banker to the Poor', this finance visionary and innovator, founder and manager of Grameen Bank and its growing family of social venture businesses, was honoured with a Nobel Peace Prize in 2006. His work with Grameen echoes a theme among modern day social entrepreneurs that emphasizes the enormous synergies and benefits when business principles are unified with social ventures.
"In the last two decades, free markets have swept the globe, bringing with them enormous potential for positive change. But traditional capitalism cannot solve problems like inequality and poverty, because it is hampered by a narrow view of human nature in which people are one-dimensional beings concerned only with profit. But human beings are not one-dimensional. In fact, human beings have many other drives and passions, including the spiritual, the social, and the altruistic. This is why I believe strongly in the potentials of social business, where the creative vision of the entrepreneur is applied to today's most serious problems: feeding the poor, housing the homeless, healing the sick, and protecting the planet." |
Muhammad Yunus leads a movement that has lifted millions from poverty.
~ How did he get there?
~ What have been important experiences along the way?
~ What are the main steps in overcoming a paradigm irrationally resistant to sound change?
Here he describes how he created microcredit - collateral-free lending and savings - and other business services to the poorest citizens, particularly women. Yunus lays out the path to this extraordinary vision and success: from his youth as the son of a small jeweler in East Pakistan to his later years leading Grameen and driving global social change.
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(47:26min, english language) with subtile translations in 77 languages to choose from!
Don't miss this! This is one of the most exceptional videos around.
Excellent for school use - on global issues, innovation and poverty reducation.
Observe the exceptional character, modestly seeking to empower people, not boasting nor seeking the spotlight.
THE SOCIAL BUSINESS MODEL
MY talks about Social Business as a new way of making business @ fora tv. Entertaining! 6 min video @ www.youtube.com/watch?v=0C3XQ3BTd4o
SPONSORING BEGGARS WITH MICROCREDIT
MY's speech about this particular Grameen venture @ fora tv.
Inspirational! 6 min video @ www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8lMhj2w874
A PERSONAL RECOUNT OF FURTHER GRAMEEN SUCCESS STORIES
At Vision Summit 2008 in Berlin, Muhammad shared some more experiences with many other recent ventures that Grameen has launched in various partnerships. These stories tell a lot about how to do it and what new kinds of partnership are possible and feasible today to overcome poverty issues.
They also teach much about the new integrative approach he takes, the thinking and personality that enable overcoming old trenchees for forming these new, beneficial partnerships.
You can read this article in Youth Leader Magazine.
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Creating a World Without Poverty tells the stories of some of the earliest examples of social businesses, including Yunus's own Grameen Bank. It reveals the next phase in a hopeful economic and social revolution that is already under way—and in the worldwide effort to eliminate poverty by unleashing the productive energy of every human being.
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MORE INFORMATION
about Muhammad Yunus, Grameen Bank and the Nobel Peace Prize in Wikipedia.
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