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I grew up believing in meritocracy and the American dream. My parents came here from India. They had no connections. My brother and I went to public schools, and both of us succeeded.
- Leila Janah
#American Dream
#American
#Parents
#Us
Samasource creates jobs in regions where more traditional forms of employment in low-income economies, such as manufacturing, are difficult to scale because of poor infrastructure. In a village in Rukka, India, for example, our small data entry partner employs over 60 people doing various types of Internet research for Samasource.
- Leila Janah
#Doing
#Internet
#Poor
#Research
#Village
I think what travelling has done for me and for many generations of my family - my grandmother was a great example - it's really highlighted for me how similar we all are and how many values we all share as people on this planet.
- Leila Janah
#Family
#Great
#Me
#People
#Values
Social business lies in the spectrum of possibility between the traditional, profit-maximizing business, which directs little to no profit to doing good, and the traditional charity, which relies mostly on donations to sustain itself.
- Leila Janah
#Business
#Doing Good
#Doing
#Good
#Lies
I used to think that the worst form of discrimination for women was being hit on or hearing something disparaging. What's even more challenging for young women is a very senior male who will take an interest in you, who see themselves as father figures or mentors.
- Leila Janah
#Discrimination
#Father
#Women
#Young
Many people don't think that the poor in the developing world can do work on a computer. They won't say it explicitly. But they think it's too sophisticated.
- Leila Janah
#People
#Poor
#Say
#Work
#World
A lot of people are happy to give money to charities but are wary of giving through taxes because they feel it doesn't produce any value.
- Leila Janah
#Feel
#Happy
#Money
#People
#Value
I think the way you build a company for the future has to include social impact; it has to be part of the fabric of your company. I think when you do that, you invariably end up with much better outcomes, even in the short-term.
- Leila Janah
#Better
#Company
#Future
#Impact
#Way
I think part of the problem with charity is that it tends to make us view people as helpless victims. I think in the future, we'll look back on charity in the same way that we look back on colonialism today: as a very paternalistic system that doesn't fully recognise the full spectrum of humanity.
- Leila Janah
#Future
#Humanity
#Look
#Today
#View
Every woman that dies or loses her baby on a threadbare cot in the heart of Uganda, while her sisters on the other side of the world enjoy first-class care, is a threat to our collective humanity.
- Leila Janah
#Care
#Heart
#Humanity
#Woman
#World
Impact sourcing, a new initiative piloted by the Rockefeller Foundation and several key partners, including my company Samasource, promises to connect poor and marginalized people to digital jobs on a massive scale.
- Leila Janah
#Digital
#Foundation
#Impact
#New
#Poor
The best way to make employees happy is to set realistic goals and achieve them. The big job is to make sure those small steps are pointing us in the right direction and demonstrate at the end of the year that they all add up to something pretty great.
- Leila Janah
#Best
#Direction
#Goals
#Great
#Way
They say a picture is worth a thousand words. In the nonprofit world, the right picture is worth tens of thousands of dollars. I use PhotoPad to sync our Samasource Flickr account to my iPad and slip it out of my purse at cocktail parties to tell our story.
- Leila Janah
#Picture
#Right
#They Say
#Words
#World
I really love travelling to places where I get to learn something new about a new group of people or a new place. Learn some history, contemplate some business ideas, and sort of get off the beaten track a little bit.
- Leila Janah
#Business
#History
#Ideas
#Love
#New
True leadership isn't about having an idea. It's about having an idea and recruiting other people to execute on this vision.
- Leila Janah
#About
#Leadership
#People
#True
#Vision
The core concept of Samasource is essentially that technology helps us unlock human talent wherever it may happen to reside. That we should no longer be victims of the birth lottery. That no one should be stuck in a poor place where they don't have a job simply because of an accident of birth.
- Leila Janah
#Birth
#Place
#Poor
#Talent
#Technology
In terms of environmental impact, Samasource jobs are very green. Our product is human intelligence, and it's transported through the Internet rather than via carbon-intensive trucking, shipping, and warehousing.
- Leila Janah
#Environmental
#Green
#Intelligence
Through my studies, I became increasingly disillusioned with the international aid system. I think we systematically deny poor people the chance to engage as equals in the global economic order. At best, we give them handouts or tiny loans and hope they will suffer a bit less from extreme poverty. We don't view them as equals.
- Leila Janah
#Best
#Chance
#Hope
#Poor
#Poverty
#View
Work is at the core of human dignity.
- Leila Janah
#Dignity
#Human Dignity
#Human
#Work
So often, we leave the selfless side of ourselves for nights and weekends, for our charity work. It is our duty to inject that into our day-to-day business, into the work that we do, to improve corporations, to improve civil society, and to improve government.
- Leila Janah
#Business
#Government
#Society
#Work
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