Social enterprise is great and has grown, but I think it could have spread faster and done far more if we hadn't tried to define it. Right now in a room somewhere a group of social enterprise advocates are wasting their time arguing about what social enterprise is. You can understand why "What is social enterprise?" is a question often asked, but after years of trying to pin it down the result has been confusion, stilted growth and dogged disagreement.
We attempt definitions because we want certainty and so we grab the social enterprise tape measure and try to describe something tangible. But social enterprise is an activity, not a thing. It constantly evolves, adapts and grows and so a degree of ambiguity is inevitable, indeed it is part of the attraction and dynamism of this social revolution.
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