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Figure 7.2 The sustainable entrepreneurship module
Source: adapted from Tilley and Young (2009: 86).
pollution and homelessness. It doesn't matter whether an entrepreneur is concerned
solely with making money or effecting a social good, the skills required for both are
roughly the same or at least very similar. Each entrepreneur can envisage ways of
identifying and leveraging change to build up sufficient momentum to cause a tipping
point, making for significant, systemic change. Leadbeater and Miller (2004) write
of the pro-am revolution and pro-am power, which basically means harnessing the
interests, enthusiasms and skills people develop outside (as well as inside) their
professional lives for the public good. As Leadbeater and Miller write:
An outstanding example is Bangladesh's Grameen Bank, founded in 1976 by
Muhammad Yunnus, a Bangladeshi economics professor, to provide very poor
 
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