Social Entrepreneurs Need To Be Futurists, Too

What if we tried to prevent future problems, instead of just solving the ones in front of us?

What if we tried to prevent future problems, instead of just solving the ones in front of us?

Pick any social enterprise, and it's almost always a reaction to the past. After a natural disaster or a new refugee crisis, designers build new shelters and experiment with new aid delivery systems. After the public school system had already failed children, social entrepreneurs started building new educational tools. A new book argues that social entrepreneurs need to spend more time thinking about the problems of the future—and less time stuck on "post-traumatic innovation."

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