The document discusses a LIFE vision for women's empowerment and social entrepreneurship. LIFE stands for Liberation, Freedom, and Empowerment. It proposes four forces for realizing this vision: the market, state, people/collective action, and self. A CINE matrix is presented as a tool for self-empowerment. Empowering others involves seeing them not as enemies or competitors but as friends, partners, and reflections of oneself. The goal is a harmonic society with enlightened, ethico-democratic leadership.

1. Women Empowerment &
Social Entrepreneurship: A
LIFE Vision
Dr. Subhash Sharma
Indus Business Academy, Bangalore
*Keynote Presentation at the National Seminar on Social Entrepreneurship: Tool for
Women Empowerment" on 12th - 13th October, 2018 at Vivekananda Education
Society Institute of Management (VESIM), Chembur, Mumbai
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2. LIFE Vision
 LIFE Vision as a Liberation Vision/ Empowerment Vision
LI : Liberation
F : Freedom
E : Empowerment
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3. Changes in Human Society
and Impact on Women
Invasions Colonialism Domination Humanism --- Spirituality
Concern for Humanity
Past Present Future Direction
(Domination, Exploitation, Liberation, Freedom, Empowerment
Oppression)
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4. How to Realize LIFE Vision
 Contemporary Society and Four Forces Model
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5. Four Forces Model of
Harmonic Globalization
 1. Force of Market
 2. Force of State
 3. Force of People/ Capillary action
 4. Force of self
 (New Ideas in Strategic Thinking & Management,
Subhash Sharma, p. 49)
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6. Four Lions Metaphors of
Harmonic Globalization
MarketState
People/
Capillary
action
Self
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7. Four Models of Empowerment
 I. Corporate Model: Empowerment through Corporate
Approach
 II. Social Entrepreneurship Model/ Social Movements
Model: SHGs, SEWA, Lizzat Papad …
 III. Political Model: Participation in Political processes
 IV. Spiritual Presence Model
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8. Use of Technology for
Empowerment and Four Forces
Model
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Technology
MarketState
Capillary action/
Collective action
Self

9. Empowerment Through Self
Empowerment
 CINE Matrix as a Tool for Self Empowerment
 CINE Matrix
 C: Controllable
 I: Internal
 N: Noncontrollable
 E : External
(New Mantras in Corporate Corridors, Subhash Sharma, 2007,
p. 316)
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10. CINE Matrix Configurations
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(New Mantras in Corporate Corridors, Subhash Sharma, 2007, p. 319)

11. Empowering Self and
Empowering Others
 To empower others, we need to ask; Who is the Other?
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12. Who is the Other?
 I. My Enemy
 II. My Competitor
 III. My Friend/ Partner/ Associate
 III. My Brother and Sister
 IV. My Own Reflection (Self is Other & Other is Self)
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13. From ‘War’, Colonialism and Domination
to ‘Humanism’ to ‘Spirituality’
Enemy
Competitor
Friend/
Partner
Brothers
&
Sisters
Oneness
(New Ideas in Strategic Thinking & Management, Subhash Sharma, p. 44)
(SM)
(War model)
(Competition
model)
(Cooperation
model)
(Connectivity
model/
Support model)
(Theory O
model/ Vedanta
model)
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14. New Vision of the World through
Women Empowerment
 Eco-Sattavik (Goodness) View of the World
 Harmonic Society: Sacro-civic Society
 Enlightened Leadership: Ethico-Democratic Leadership
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15. Further Reading
 Subhash Sharma (1996, 2006, 2017), Management in New Age: Western
Windows Eastern Doors, New Age International Publishers, New Delhi
 Subhash Sharma (2007), New Mantras in Corporate Corridors; From
Ancient Roots to Global Routes, New Age International Publishers, New
Delhi
 Subhash Sharma (2012), New Earth Sastra: Towards Holistic
Development & Management (HDM), IBA Publications, Bangalore
 Subhash Sharma (2016), New Ideas in Strategic Thinking & Management:
A Knowledge Tree of New Age Mantras, New Age International
Publishers, New Delhi
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