Leaving a legacy
Increase your social impact
People want to change things, improve the world. Our mind cannot live without meaning. Just like the body asks for food. We all know that we have the leverage to make things happen. It’s important to know what to do, but it’s even more important to remember why you do what you do. Leaving a legacy is about impact surviving the erosion of time. About scaling and accelerating positive impact. Be ready to get inspired about leaving your own legacy.
How do you leave a legacy? What drives a legacy? How about your legacy statement? And how about increasing your impact? Will you choose for scaling up, scaling deep, scaling out, or maybe even scaling down? Get carried away by the impact point of view and discover how you can increase the impact of your organisation too.
This book reveals strategies of a diversity of organizations, from NPO’s over associations, governmental and knowledge institutes to commercial organizations, who succeeded in increasing their social impact. Because no matter in what kind of organization you are spending your days, you too may leave a legacy that has improved our world socially or ecologically.
Increase your social impact
People want to change things, improve the world. Our mind cannot live without meaning. Just like the body asks for food. We all know that we have the leverage to make things happen. It’s important to know what to do, but it’s even more important to remember why you do what you do. Leaving a legacy is about impact surviving the erosion of time. About scaling and accelerating positive impact. Be ready to get inspired about leaving your own legacy.
How do you leave a legacy? What drives a legacy? How about your legacy statement? And how about increasing your impact? Will you choose for scaling up, scaling deep, scaling out, or maybe even scaling down? Get carried away by the impact point of view and discover how you can increase the impact of your organisation too.
This book reveals strategies of a diversity of organizations, from NPO’s over associations, governmental and knowledge institutes to commercial organizations, who succeeded in increasing their social impact. Because no matter in what kind of organization you are spending your days, you too may leave a legacy that has improved our world socially or ecologically.
Inhoudstafel
Inhoudstafel
Foreword
Intro
Introduction to the legacy canvas
1. All about impact
1.1. What is impact?
1.2. Why do we want to have impact?
1.3. Why should everyone make impact in his or her own way?
2. How to intentionally make a long lasting positive impact, a legacy?
2.1. When can we call it a legacy?
2.2. What societal challenges do you want to impact?
2.3. From concern to control
2.4. Your legacy statement
2.5. Measuring your impact
3. Stages of impact: from negative impact to a legacy
4. Strategies for your legacy
4.1. Collaboration is key
4.2. Getting to the core
4.3. Scaling strategies
4.3.1. Scaling up
4.3.2. Scaling deep
4.3.3. Scaling out
4.3.4. Scaling down
4.4. The match of impact and revenue
5. Going international
Outro
Tools
Kaat Peeters is an impact maker with a track record in associations as well as governmental institutes. Kaat established a European network and was responsible, as manager, to develop two newly founded associations in the cultural field into solid organizations. Meanwhile, Kaat ran a shop in Persian and Arabic interior objects and a Bed&Breakfast. In 2013, Kaat established the ‘Sociale Innovatiefabriek’, a Belgian based accelerator that stimulates and facilitates social innovation and social entrepreneurship counting an amazing community of more than 500 innovators.
Nowadays, Kaat is lecturer social innovation at the University College ‘Erasmushogeschool’ and with her consulting organisation ‘Impact Projects’, Kaat supports impact organisations with their growth strategies. As hands-on Board of Directors member of cultural associations and social enterprises, making impact is always of paramount importance in her work.
Omar Mohout, currently Partner & Head of Digital at management consulting firm Nova Reperta, is a former technology entrepreneur, a widely published technology author, C-level advisor to high growth startups, as well as Fortune 500 companies and Professor of Entrepreneurship at Antwerp Management School and Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management.
He is author of ‘Pricing Strategies for Startups’, ‘The Belgian Startup Landscape’, ‘Crowdfunding in Belgium’, ’99 reasons why startups fail’, ‘Corporate Venturing’, ‘Leaving a legacy’, ‘Nooit Nog Normaal, ‘Go! 28 steps to launch your venture’ and the popular ‘From idea to product/market fit’. A contributing author to the ‘100 Days Digital Marketing Plan’ and ‘The Future of Business’ books.
Mohout is Chairman of BeCentral, the largest digital skills campus in Europe; Advisory Board member of the Euronext TechShare Program; Advisor to the AI4Belgium board, advisor to the State Secretary for Digitalization and; member of the Agoria Digital Industries Committee. He also joined the Board of Directors of venture capital fund imec.istart.
Mohout is a keynote speaker and panelist on technology, entrepreneurship and innovation topics at leading conferences.