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Making the community a part of your team

This video features an interview with one of the founders of The Big Lemon, who discusses the importance of the community in his enterprise.

In addition to building a core leadership team, social enterprises draw their organisational strength from the ways in which they involve local communities in their decision-making processes.

A distinguishing feature of ventures like The Big Lemon is the importance of the community as a contributing stakeholder in the social enterprise team. How does your social enterprise, or a social enterprise that you know, take community inputs on the provision of its products and services?

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