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"What would you do if you knew you couldn't fail?" - was a question which cropped up yesterday. The words that came to mind were those of Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird     

“I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do”

I was reminded today of how my grandfather described the Great Depression where a man would offer to do another's job for less money in their desperation to find work.  

It's now a good time to start a business apparenly, due to low wages in this current economic cilimate.

The unbearable lightness of (corporate) ethics, part 1

(Reposted from cirquedegens)

Introduction

By which I mean they've abandoned their discussion forum in favour of promotional blogs. I was just reading one about Buzzbnk

Ours was an interesting experience of Village SOS, that is in the context of 'may you live in interesting times'

In 2009, our proposal for a self sustaining social enterprise in the Forest of Dean didn't raise enough local stakeholder support to be considered, I'd described the need to replace the loss of jobs by those disenfranchised by the closure of a Remploy factory in our village.

"Somewhere there is a place
Where the heart meets face to face
With the whole human race
Before the last shadow falls "

A selection of quotes on economics for the benefit of people and their needs.  

The UN General Assembly

That's the call being made by a group of residents in the Forest of Dean , where I live.

They are people disenfranchised by the loss of their jobs in other retail businesses, notably The Range. which might well be the setting for a Dickensian novel.

What the owner reveals of himself on the company website is in fact, beyond the realm of fiction, unless Mein Kampf is on your reading list  

I can't remember where the conversation was or whether it still exists online, but I remember participating in the original discussion on Creative Capitalism. As a business with a social purpose, we'd challenged the orthodoxy of Milton Friedman  . There wasn't much interest in what I had to say, apart from one rather hostile contrbutor who took to defending the status quo by challenging me for agreeing with Bill Gates.

to discuss how business can help build a better world.