Hey people!

If you look through my last few posts, you'll see they're in Chinese! I've been posting them as a part of my Language for Professional Communication class. Yesterday's post about social entrepreneurs reminded me that, in all the talk of other social enterprises and their founders, I hadn't really talked about my company, OrangeMouth, the entire point of this blog! 

My presentation for this unit is at noon today so this is a bit last minute, but I shot a quick mini-intro for OrangeMouth (in Mandarin of course) for fun late yesterday, and thought it would be a nice way to wrap up all the Chinese posts. 

If anyone is interested, the transcript of the text is in the description box. 

Enjoy! (:

朋友们好！对不起，我今天没有一盘短片陪

我觉得 是一个铁别殊种的人要成为社会企业家。

上边 有一张拼贴。他们都是社会企业家， 都有共性的独特。今天，我去讨论一下一些的那独特。


旗帜

1. 谆谆的
2. 领导：一领导会编组
3. 省/现实
4. 感召

Wow! These character traits are really difficult to describe in Mandarin! :p

Dedication: Many people talk about being passionate about your work. I do agree that you should love what you do, however, there comes a time when passion fades. That's when dedication starts. There will be many an all-nighter to pull when starting a business, and I think that's part of what keeps you there when the passion has cooled down a bit. 

Leadership skills: It takes a leader to run a team, and that's what any social enterprise is, a team. A good leader works alongside their employees and leads by example. 

Carrying on in the same vein, a social entrepreneur must be someone who can inspire others, call them to action. If they are unable to do this even in small settings (for example with friends), how they they compel a much larger audience to believe in their vision?

Phew! And those are just three of the qualities one would expect in a company founder. My brain is still whirring thinking of qualities that are good and qualities that are necessary for a social entrepreneur to possess, so I'll likely revisit this topic again in a few weeks. Keep an eye out for it! 

Until next time! (: