Ernesto Sirolli: Want to help someone? Shut up and listen!
When most well-intentioned aid workers hear of a problem they think they can fix, they go to work. This, Ernesto Sirolli suggests, is naïve. In this funny and impassioned talk, he proposes that the first step is to listen to the people you’re trying to help, and tap into their own entrepreneurial spirit. He believes this advice, on what works, will help any entrepreneur.
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ABOUT Ernesto Sirolli
“Dr Ernesto Sirolli is a noted authority in the field of sustainable Economic Development and is the Founder of the Sirolli Institute, an international Non-Profit Organisation that teaches community leaders how to establish and maintain Enterprise Facilitation projects in their community.
The Institute is now training communities in the USA, Canada, Australia, England and Scotland. In 1985, in a small rural community in Western Australia called Esperance, he pioneered a unique economic development approach based on harnessing the passion, determination, intelligence, and resourcefulness of the local people.
The striking results of ‘The Esperance Experience’ have prompted more than 250 communities around the world to adopt responsive, person-centred approaches to local Economic Development similar to the Enterprise Facilitation® model pioneered in Esperance.”
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