A tale of two bankers
At the Ashden Directory blog Robert Butler writes about Mohammed Yunus, founder of Bangladesh’s Gameen Bank, and deliverer of Thursday night’s Ashden Awards lecture:
Impossible not to compare two bankers – Sir Fred Goodwin and Mohammad Yunus – two world views: one that works, one that doesn’t.
There’s something almost Wildean about Yunus’s stories. He overturns the assumptions by which a society operates. The Grameen Bank has loaned money to tens of 1000s of beggars and his bank still flourishes. Other banks that only lend to the rich (because of ‘economic realities’) have crashed.
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Tessy Britton on
Thu, 12th Mar 2009 1:09 pm
I went to see Mohammed Yunus speak when he was in London this time last year.
What struck me mostly strongly was that all his ideas and projects stemmed from his attitude towards people. He often found himself persuading women and other people to borrow money, even when they didn’t have an idea of how to use that for a business.
He believes in great human capacity – without that he would never have dreamt that any of his amazing ideas had a chance of working …
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