Out of interest, have CE looked into more specific testing of which of those traits best predict success? For instance, by reviewing which of the CE incubated charities have been most successful and if there were personality traits (I assume recorded at the time of co-founder recruitment) that were disproportiately present?
I respect 27 charities is still too small of a sample size to be reliable as a data set, but it could be analysis which could be built upon as the numbers of charities that were incubated grew and matured.
Hello James! We are testing a few of our intuitions here but it’s tricky to compare across charities because their environments and interventions are so different. That said, the personality characteristics listed above were found through a series of interviews and case studies. That evidence has it’s limitations, and we have plans to test these relationships more empirically in the future.
Interesting read, thanks for sharing!
Out of interest, have CE looked into more specific testing of which of those traits best predict success? For instance, by reviewing which of the CE incubated charities have been most successful and if there were personality traits (I assume recorded at the time of co-founder recruitment) that were disproportiately present?
I respect 27 charities is still too small of a sample size to be reliable as a data set, but it could be analysis which could be built upon as the numbers of charities that were incubated grew and matured.
Hello James! We are testing a few of our intuitions here but it’s tricky to compare across charities because their environments and interventions are so different. That said, the personality characteristics listed above were found through a series of interviews and case studies. That evidence has it’s limitations, and we have plans to test these relationships more empirically in the future.