Challenging conventional wisdom in social innovation

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Nowadays, too many social innovators are being put in the spotlight for who they are and what they have done with their success, and not the innovations that they actually inspired. When people write about these innovations, they focus on the innovation, and not the innovator. They look at success and failure, and whether or not something should have been done differently, but not how it was done or who the person was that actually innovating.

The author of the article aims to change that statistic by publishing a book in which the innovators are the sole content and take the entirety of the spotlight. He tells their life stories and how they came to be successful through innovation so that future innovators may be able to more efficiently extract an idea of what it means to be a successful social innovator.

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