Impact pyramid
Why is it that despite the best efforts non profits fail? Startups (for profit) fail spectacularly and more often. But there is a profound difference in those two types of failures. One fail in its quest for finding a problem to solve. Sometimes the problem doesn't exist at a primary level even. While the other fails despite having identified a very fundamental problem which often needs urgently to be tackled. Now let's merge this distinction among profits and non profits for sometime and take a more fundamental dig on them. There are already too much of meanings and stereotypes attached with terms like corporate, organization, startup, non profit etc. Fundamentally people, both outsiders and insiders, often don't acknowledge the core components of these entities. This often lead to failures. Well, some do get a certain things right and manage to outshine spectacularly. Having worked with over 15 entities in a span of 5 years, from killed startups to IGOs, I spent ...