29 Jun 2010

The Art of disruption ....

Earlier on last month we at On Purpose had heard how Michael Morley the chairman of Coutts Bank had an 'epiphany' moment about Social Enterprise when he 'job swapped' for a day with Nigel Kersaw, Head of Big Issue. You can read more about that here. 

I saw this epiphany at first hand last night when Coutts in partnership with Real Business magazine hosted a 'Celebration of New Enterprise'. We were delighted to be invited along and the timing couldn't have been more perfect as this week Real Business published their latest article about On Purpose.

It was a great evening -it's always great to meet new faces and I heard how the recession has pushed innovation and market disruption to the fore - 'the art of disruption' has been favoured thinking during the recession and last nights gathering would recognise that therein lies the strength of an entrepreneurial mind!

But i also heard a really simple truth - Matthew Rock - founder of the Real Business magazine reminded us how it's really not that long ago when it was deemed unnatural for business to be run without social purpose.

You'll see that Tom has just written about 'Conscious Employerism' and reflected on Dragons Den's Doug Richards challenge that we should be counting down the last 100 enterprises that don't have a social focus.

What do you think? Can you see the day that we'll return (as Matthew Rock would hold) to a world where all business is social business?  What disruption will need to be caused first?

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