A damn good business: Make good money

By Ben Steenstra and Jochem de Klerk

Do you, as a charity or business, ever question if you're doing things the right way? A Damn Good Business suggests that adapting to human nature can lead to better outcomes, which we call a Meaningful Profit Business - the perfect balance between profit and non-profit. This approach can lead to increased efficiency, innovation, income, reduced workplace stress, and more enjoyable work experiences. Additionally, it allows you to make a positive impact on the world.

Learn within 30 days how to transform your business into a Meaningful Profit business and make good profits by adapting to human nature. Discover in this book why the split between profit and non-profit is illogical and rethink existing organizational structures, ways of thinking, and working to make your enterprise meaningful and gain good profits. With new insights and guidelines, this book offers a 30-day roadmap to work differently and adapt the enterprise to human nature. Let go of sacred cows and become a damn good business.


• Language: English
• Publisher: Publishdrive
• Release date: May 19, 2023

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Preface.

Whether you run a charity or a commercial operation, money needs to be raised to stay alive, stay afloat and grow. To ensure this happens so you can pay salaries and other expenses, you must do everything perfectly.

But what if we told you there is a way to do it even better? What if, with less effort, you can achieve more, the work becomes more fun, and you will generate more revenue? A fairy tale? Not quite.

Do you know the saying, ‘All good things come to those who make them happen’? If you read the word ‘good’ in two ways and apply it, it’s absolutely right. A kind of universal law that always applies. Making good money, in other words. We call companies that apply this ‘Meaningful Profit companies’ — the golden mean between the profit and non-profit sectors. But to do that, you must start working differently and adapt the enterprise to human nature. Because by nature, humans are not made only to give or only to take.

Right now, we are ready for change. Less stress, a healthier work-life balance and more enjoyment. Fortunately, these days, all this is increasingly placed higher and higher on the agenda for many.

This book explains why the split between profit and non-profit sectors is illogical. We explain what Meaningful Profit is, how it works and how any business can become a Meaningful Profit business.

Brace yourself. With all the best intentions, we kick against some sacred cows occasionally, and not everyone is up to this. We challenge you to let go of your thoughts about how something should be. Everything really wasn’t better in the old days, was it? ‘A Damn Good Business’ is about rethinking existing organisational structures, thinking and ways of working. With new insights and guidelines for a 30-day roadmap, you can align your business with human nature and start making ‘good’ money.

Become a Meaningful Profit business within 30 days.

Copyright© 2023: BecomeDamnGood

Author: Ben Steenstra

Co-author: Nicci Severens

Year of publication: 2023

Design and layout: Mindd.eu

Introduction.

Many of our many-times-great-grandparents witnessed the birth of the Industrial Revolution. A time when businesses and the economy benefited from innovations like never before. A true revolution that we are still building on today. Machines conquered the world, and solid crafts of yesteryear rapidly disappeared into the history books. It could not go fast enough; it was all one great improvement that made our lives easier in so many ways.

But only some things got better. Not to mention how polluting the machines were that powered the Industrial Revolution in those days. Another thing that certainly proved to counter