Judges engaged the 20 social entrepreneurs, genuinely interested in hearing our stories and understanding how we hoped to change the world.
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For the rest of us, when an entrepreneur starts by sharing their idea on how they want to change the world, first listen and then help.
She cites changes we have made before as a society to improve our way of life--changes like waste collection and public education-- as models for how we need to change the world again.
Applicants to the program are challenged to first submit proposals on how they wish to change their communities and the world around them.
The question is, What is this going to change, and how will the world and its customers adapt themselves to a Wal-Mart world?
Check out the 20 finalists below and learn how these entrepreneurs are planning to change the world.
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By this we mean that software is absolutely integral to how we currently run our businesses as well as how we reimagine our businesses as the world continues to change how we redesign and produce things, how we create and manage new commercial transactions, how we begin to collaborate at unprecedented levels internally and with customers and suppliers.
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Ask (and answer out loud): How are we going to change the world of our employees, customers and marketplace?
"The sooner industry exercises its vision, and takes into account how the world is going to change towards a new technological future, the better off they will be".
By Scott Goodson, chairman and founder of StrawberryFrog, and author of Uprising: How to Build a Brand and Change the World by Sparking Cultural Movements. (McGraw Hill, April 2012).
This guy badgered me about how Microsoft was going to completely change the world with this tablet PC software and eliminate all notebook computers, and Apple ought to license his Microsoft software.
The former Paralympic athlete, Baroness Grey-Thompson, agreed that the Olympic Truce was a "wonderful ambition, " but she also wanted peers to think about how sport can change the world.
If the atom world is slow to change, how can bits replace atoms or change the way we use them?
They'll talk about her wish to change the world and how they're going to go about it.
My acclaimed book on public speaking, Working the Room: How to Move People to Action through Audience-Centered Speaking, was published by Harvard in 2003 and reprinted in paperback in 2005 as Give Your Speech, Change the World: How to Move Your Audience to Action.
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How to maintain a stable middle class amid sweeping technological change is a problem the developed world is only beginning to appreciate.
That these people would just learn a little economics, understand how and why the world ticks as it does, before insisting that they know how to change it all.
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France is one of the most important countries in the world and helps to set trends in how we deal with everything from climate change to the global recession.
How will the world's poorest countries be helped in adapting to climate change?
Whether you are a brand, an entrepreneur or an individual who wants to change the world, new video games are teaching the very basics of how to spark a mass movement or what I like to call a Cultural Movement.
Dynamic events change and evolve in response to how you interact with them, leaving lasting effects in the game world.
Leading scientists, artists, academics and public policy makers will share their experiences and ideas on how light can change the world from revolutionising medicine using cutting-edge technologies and bringing light to communities without electricity, to transforming the places we live with amazing art installations and ground-breaking building design.
KoAnn talks about how this growing understanding of systems, coupled with tighter purse strings around the world, are working together to change the way we shop.
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