Business and capitalism get conflated — in our media, our language and in our thinking. They are not the same thing. One is a sector, the other a methodology. By inextricably linking the two, we confine the practice of real, turbo-charged capitalism to business, and we dangerously limit the capacity of non-business organizations to innovate, fund, and bring to scale the kind of breakthrough ideas that will begin to solve the huge social problems we face today.
Business Can’t Solve the World’s Problems — But Capitalism Can
By inextricably linking business and capitalism, we dangerously limit the capacity of non-business organizations to innovate, fund, and bring to scale breakthrough ideas that could change the world.
January 15, 2013