Playwright George Bernard Shaw once said: “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.
Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”

“By this definition, some of today’s leading entrepreneurs are decidedly unreasonable—and a fair few have even been dubbed crazy,” insists Pamela Hartigan, our August Entrepreneur of the Month (pictured above).

The director of the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship at Oxford University’s Saïd Business School. honored us with an interview earlier this summer when she was in NYC on her way to a conference in Brazil. Scroll down for our Q&A to learn more the new generation of entrepreneurs whose are changing the world.

Also in This Issue:

• Rippling, by Beverly Schwartz, teaches us how social entrepreneurs are spreading innovation throughout the world. Click here for the review.

• Ashoka founder Bill Drayton, chairman of the international social entrepreneurial organization, believes everyone can be a changemaker. Are you ready?

• Bo Peabody, author of “Lucky or Smart: Secrets for an Entrepreneurial Life,” tells us why it’s the B-students who make it as entrepreneurs.

• Two Truly Amazing Women inspire us this month: Tara Palacios, director of the BizLaunch program at Arlington Economic Development; and Annette Giacomazzi, whose daughter broke a bone—for the sixth time—prompting her to launch the cool California company, CastCoverZ!.

We leave you with this parting thought from the immortal Viktor Frankl, author of Man’s Search for Meaning: “Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life to carry out a concrete assignment which demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated. Thus, everyone’s task is as unique as is his specific opportunity to implement it.”

Here’s to your unique and important success. — Hope Gibbs
publisher, Be Inkandescent • president, InkandescentPR • founder, InkandescentNetworking. • new! InkandescentSpeakers.com
Photo of Hartigan, above, courtesy of DumboFeather.com