Bev Schwartz’s RIPPLING is an utter joy to read. Bev’s organization is systematic and anecdotal. Everything about RIPPING soars and inspires. I picked it up from Amazon as soon as it was published, thinking to myself “here we go again - yet another incomprehensible attempt (for the layman) at what we mean by applied social entrepreneurship, the network effect, and RIPPLING to make matters even more confounding). Rather like looking at a mirrored image of a mirrored image or reading the ripples spawned by a pebble cast across a pond. Even though I knew Bev had made a huge investment of time, personal funds, energy, and sheer nerves of steel into writing this tomb, I was still expecting the same-old same-old.
Much to my surprise and delight, I picked the book up and did not put down until some four or five hours later, I had completely devoured it. We have not seen an explanation as coherent and comprehensively organized as this - let alone one as inspiring as RIPPLING is - at least since Bornstein’s HOW TO CHANGE THE WORLD and frankly because this is more concise, more coherent, and does a much better job of really explaining the fundamentals of social entrepreneurship plus the wondrous RIPPLING phenomena, I believe for the general reader who isn’t interested in the ins and outs of the sociologic or advanced intricacies of philosophic business models supporting social entrepreneurship (both of which can become very weighty topics), this is the PERFECT book!
It even contains a short chapter by President Bill Clinton.
Buy RIPPLING. Read RIPPLING. Pass it around to everyone you know. Keep those books in motion because the more people who read and get RIPPLING, and are turned on by the promise and hope and wondrous magic Bev has so aptly captured here (which you really have to be Genghis Khan, Scrooge, or the Grynch not to be), the MORE RIPPLING ...
An absolutely joyful book that teaches, inspires, and is c ertain to be Rippling for a very long time to come written by one a true social change-making genius with inestimable warmth, love, and heart. RIPPLING and its author simply cannot be appreciated enough.
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BY C. Thomas Boone
ON April 2, 2014 12:32 AM
Bev Schwartz’s RIPPLING is an utter joy to read. Bev’s organization is systematic and anecdotal. Everything about RIPPING soars and inspires. I picked it up from Amazon as soon as it was published, thinking to myself “here we go again - yet another incomprehensible attempt (for the layman) at what we mean by applied social entrepreneurship, the network effect, and RIPPLING to make matters even more confounding). Rather like looking at a mirrored image of a mirrored image or reading the ripples spawned by a pebble cast across a pond. Even though I knew Bev had made a huge investment of time, personal funds, energy, and sheer nerves of steel into writing this tomb, I was still expecting the same-old same-old.
Much to my surprise and delight, I picked the book up and did not put down until some four or five hours later, I had completely devoured it. We have not seen an explanation as coherent and comprehensively organized as this - let alone one as inspiring as RIPPLING is - at least since Bornstein’s HOW TO CHANGE THE WORLD and frankly because this is more concise, more coherent, and does a much better job of really explaining the fundamentals of social entrepreneurship plus the wondrous RIPPLING phenomena, I believe for the general reader who isn’t interested in the ins and outs of the sociologic or advanced intricacies of philosophic business models supporting social entrepreneurship (both of which can become very weighty topics), this is the PERFECT book!
It even contains a short chapter by President Bill Clinton.
Buy RIPPLING. Read RIPPLING. Pass it around to everyone you know. Keep those books in motion because the more people who read and get RIPPLING, and are turned on by the promise and hope and wondrous magic Bev has so aptly captured here (which you really have to be Genghis Khan, Scrooge, or the Grynch not to be), the MORE RIPPLING ...
An absolutely joyful book that teaches, inspires, and is c ertain to be Rippling for a very long time to come written by one a true social change-making genius with inestimable warmth, love, and heart. RIPPLING and its author simply cannot be appreciated enough.