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About Jacqueline Novogratz
Until May 26th, your purchase of Manifesto for a Moral Revolution will give you free access to Jaqueline's class "The Path of Moral Leadership." Visit acumenacademy.org to redeem and learn important practices from leaders who have broken boundaries and improved how the poor, the vulnerable, and the earth are treated.
Jacqueline Novogratz is the founder and CEO of Acumen. She has been named one of the Top 100 Global Thinkers by Foreign Policy, one of the 25 Smartest People of the Decade by the Daily Beast, and one of the world’s 100 Greatest Living Business Minds by Forbes, which also honored her with the Forbes 400 Lifetime Achievement Award for Social Entrepreneurship.
More information at www.acumen.org/moralrevolution. All proceeds from the book sales go to Acumen to fight poverty and support moral leaders.
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From her first stumbling efforts as a young idealist venturing forth in Africa to the creation of the trailblazing organization she runs today, Novogratz tells gripping stories with unforgettable characters—women dancing in a Nairobi slum, unwed mothers starting a bakery, courageous survivors of the Rwandan genocide, entrepreneurs building services for the poor against impossible odds.
She shows, in ways both hilarious and heartbreaking, how traditional charity often fails, but how a new form of philanthropic investing called "patient capital" can help make people self-sufficient and can change millions of lives. More than just an autobiography or a how-to guide to addressing poverty, The Blue Sweater is a call to action that challenges us to grant dignity to the poor and to rethink our engagement with the world.
"An instant classic." —Arianna Huffington
"Will inspire people from across the political spectrum." —Jonathan Haidt
Longlisted for the Porchlight Business Book of the Year Award, an essential shortlist of leadership ideas for everyone who wants to do good in this world, from Jacqueline Novogratz, author of the New York Times bestseller The Blue Sweater and founder and CEO of Acumen.
In 2001, when Jacqueline Novogratz founded Acumen, a global community of socially and environmentally responsible partners dedicated to changing the way the world tackles poverty, few had heard of impact investing—Acumen’s practice of “doing well by doing good.” Nineteen years later, there’s been a seismic shift in how corporate boards and other stakeholders evaluate businesses: impact investment is not only morally defensible but now also economically advantageous, even necessary.
Still, it isn’t easy to reach a success that includes profits as well as mutually favorable relationships with workers and the communities in which they live. So how can today’s leaders, who often kick off their enterprises with high hopes and short timetables, navigate the challenges of poverty and war, of egos and impatience, which have stymied generations of investors who came before?
Drawing on inspiring stories from change-makers around the world and on memories of her own most difficult experiences, Jacqueline divulges the most common leadership mistakes and the mind-sets needed to rise above them. The culmination of thirty years of work developing sustainable solutions for the problems of the poor, Manifesto for a Moral Revolution offers the perspectives necessary for all those—whether ascending the corporate ladder or bringing solar light to rural villages—who seek to leave this world better off than they found it.
En 2001, cuando Jacqueline Novogratz fundó Acumen, una comunidad global dedicada a cambiar la forma en que se aborda la pobreza en el mundo, casi nadie había oído hablar de la inversión de impacto. Veinte años después, la manera en que los consejos de administración de las empresas y otros actores económicos evalúan los negocios ha cambiado radicalmente. La inversión de impacto —la práctica de Acumen de «hacer bien haciendo el bien»—no sólo es moralmente defendible, sino que ahora también es económicamente conveniente, incluso necesaria.
Aun así, no es fácil lograr un éxito que proporcione beneficios y en el que las relaciones con los trabajadores y sus comunidades sean mutuamente favorables. ¿Qué pueden hacer, entonces, los líderes actuales, que muchas veces arrancan sus empresas con grandes esperanzas y pocos planes, y se abren camino entre los desafíos de la pobreza y la guerra, los egos y la impaciencia?
Basándose en historias de personas de todo el mundo que han logrado un cambio real y en sus propios recuerdos de experiencias difíciles, Novogratz explica cuáles son los errores de liderazgo más comunes y cuál la mentalidad necesaria para superarlos.
Manifiesto para una revolución moral es la culminación de treinta años de trabajo desarrollando soluciones sostenibles para los problemas de los pobres. Por eso constituye una perspectiva imprescindible para todos aquellos que, bien sea ascendiendo en una gran corporación o llevando la energía solar a aldeas rurales, quieran dejar este mundo mejor de lo que lo encontraron.