At Tom Munnecke's excellent uplift workshop last week, Heather Ion had a
very interesting comparison between profits and non-profits: To summarize
(perhaps too briefly): (01)
* Profit: the avatar is a hero
* Non-profit: the avatar is a martyr (02)
This conforms to my experience, since I've worked in both fields. To the
hero avatar we owe all the corporate hagiography (and, I grant, some
genuine heroism), and to the martyr avatar we owe the institutional
dysfunctions many of us may be familiar with: the cheeseparing, lack of a
positive discourse, suffering seen as an end in itself, etc. (03)
The question I want to ask is this: Isn't it possible that there is
another avatar for non-profits, in addition to the martyr: (04)
* the evangelist (05)
? (06)
Sam Hunting
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