Compass proudly announced today that it has chosen Larry Robertson’s award-winning book, A Deliberate Pause: Entrepreneurship and its Moment in Human Progress, as its central text for the organization’s campus-based social entrepreneurship programs on college campuses nationwide. The decision comes as Compass continues to expand its reach to 12
campuses in the fall of 2011 and hosts its first national summit this spring. The summit, Shift Series, intends to engage non-profit, business and government leaders, students, educators and entrepreneurs in a series of workshops and discussions on taking new approaches to social issues.
“Our fellows are a dynamic group of future leaders,” said Compass co-founder Neil Shah, “and the thinking, work, and issues they engage in are dynamic as well. A Deliberate Pause is the first book ever to see and address entrepreneurship in that same dynamic way.”
Rather than look for a formula to entrepreneurship or highlight individual people and stories of entrepreneurship as exemplifying “the” way to catalyze and make the changes entrepreneurs are known for, A Deliberate Pause takes a needed pause, stepping back to examine entrepreneurship for its true meaning, and in doing so reveals the patterns across all successful, lasting entrepreneurial ventures. “What we like most about the book is that it offers our fellows both a framework for understanding and an ongoing set of reference points for shaping their thinking, ideas and solutions for creating better approaches to solving social issues,” Shah said.
“It is an honor and an opportunity to have the book chosen by Compass,” author Larry Robertson said. “The honor is a combination of having the book recognized by a larger audience than just the individual reader and to have that recognition come from an organization as unique, admirable and important as Compass. The opportunity is to help students engage in a deeper level of entrepreneurial thinking and looking at the world differently, well before they focus on a particular interest, issue or venture. That’s how entrepreneurial thinking becomes a habit, not just a one time, one idea occurrence.”
The book will be distributed to all new Fellows this fall as part of their welcome packet upon commencement of the fellowship program. The book will also be given to all future classes of incoming Fellows. In collaboration with Mr. Robertson, Compass is in the process of developing accompanying learning guides to tie the book and the modules of the Fellows program more closely together.
About Larry Robertson
Larry is the award-winning author of A Deliberate Pause: Entrepreneurship and its Moment in Human Progress, a book that has received wide acclaim for its unique and insightful look at how entrepreneurship works and for its accessible, actionable guidance as to how all of us can tap this powerful force that enables humanity to progress. He has spent more than two decades in the entrepreneurial universe in roles ranging from advisor to investor and many in between. Larry is the founder and president of Lighthouse Consulting, an adjunct professor of entrepreneurship at Georgetown’s McDonough School of Business and a recognized expert on entrepreneurship in public, private and academic forums.
