I agree that we do often fall victim to the cult of personality. It’s so easy to over simplify and romanticize what lead to successful change and so much easier to focus on a single dynamic person rather than a complex dynamic group. It is important to expand our definition of social entrepreneurship to include the actions of a group and ventures that, for a multitude of reasons, never quite fly. However, I think reshaping our definition of social entrepreneurship might be easier than achieving what Light hopes this new understanding will lead to, namely spreading social entrepreneurship funding out to a broader audience. The main hurdle will be addressing the entrepreneurial ventures that fail. I think there are countless brilliant ideas that flop because they don’t get the startup resources they need, but one can’t ignore the fact that these resources are extremely limited, and funders are understandably cautious about how they distribute them.
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