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Vendor, visit the same villages, has sent a different dispatch: "tremendous opportunity here." No one wears shoes. ?

This story, a chestnut rustic sales training seminars and the graduation speech aims to show the strength of the perspective.Two people can see exactly the same conditions, but lead to conclusions very différentes.Qui leads to shoe - or more precisely, TOMS shoes.

TOMS is a 90-employee operation headquartered Californie.Il offer South cloth shoes and stylish canvas on its Web site and high-end retailers in the United States and Europe.But TOMS also does something unorthodox: for each pair of shoes, it sells, it gives a pair of shoes for children in need somewhere in the world.

TOMS is a charity - organization nonprofit finances its charity in shoe sales company? or is it a company which is ready to sacrifice profits to do good?

The answer? It is not.

If widen us our perspective a bit, it is clear that TOMS is something else completely - and that something else could be just the future of the company.

The official line is that "TOMS shoes is a for-profit company giving its core".Rien individual again here.Businesses of all kinds - the giant combinations - corner grocery have always given things. " "Buy one, get one free" is as robust as double-entry accounting practice.

TOMS is branch this concept in a new and potentially powerful direction, says Lisa Jones Christensen, Professor of strategy and entrepreneurship at The University of North Carolina Kenan - Flagler Business School.

A typical arrangement "buy one, get one free", benefits attributed only to the purchaser, she says. " With the model of TOMS, you build something for someone else while also promoting your own way. ?

When customers buy shoes, they "can leave TOMS finish on the final mile of their good intentions," explains Christensen.Then, whenever a client slips on a pair of Classics, Cordones or Stitchouts, he gets a reminder of the contributions made in the world.

"It is a model where the consumer can continue to reap the satisfaction shoe gets portée.La most other consumer leads to decreased satisfaction, as products become obsolete and head towards landfill sites."

As a result, the gifts, if expensive, increase customer satisfaction and deepen the social loyauté.Mission TOMS - providing shoes for needy - is not an integral part makes it tender accuracy of competitive logic company.

If this shoe peddler, California founded in 2006 by a 20 - something entrepreneur, were the only company deployment strategy of "Buy One, give one Away" - call it BO-Government - we may disappear as a curiosity intéressante.Mais, very slowly, this business model be held elsewhere.

For example, Warby Parker, manufacturer of hip, cheap glasses gives a pair of glasses for each pair sold it.Happy blankie provides coverage for children in need, whenever a customer buys one of its enfantine.Le feed for pets in the Canada headlamp Darford International provides a meal for dogs in animal shelters with each packet of dog food that it sells.WeWood, a watchmaker, plant a tree that she sells one of its watches wooden.

Why are some of the BO - GOA business now?It is social media, allowing the upstarts like TOMS to disseminate their message at an advantageous price and register their benefactors-client as marketing specialists.

Another is that this model allows brands to stand out in a crowded market, explains Lisebeth den Toom, editor-in-Chief of the Springwise blog based in Amsterdam and the newsletter that tracks new business ideas.

"Without connecting to a greater cause", she says, "" I doubt the TOMS mark would have increased faster or had as much stable power. ""

But the most important reason could be something more deep. perhaps the greed, although still glorious and necessary, is no longer sufficient for 21st siècle.Partout companies worldwide, some of the top performing companies are marrying the greed with "objective cause" - the sense that businesses should stand for something and contribute to the world.

Indeed, in the last decade, we have seen what happens when the greed comes detached object .Parfois motivation, the result is an unethical behavior and téméraire.Mais result is most often poor - medium-sized, boring, mundane products and services.Si Cree rallying to a company is "Let's raise earnings per share 4 cents this quarter" is not the kind of mission that makes most people jump out of bed in the morning to race to work doing something extraordinary.

But when the profit motive and purpose pattern combining as they do in many companies of BO - GOA, the results can be étonnantes.Le last month, a group of employees at TOMS visited Argentina, where they gave further their pair Misiones region millionth chaussures.Un million pairs sold 1 million pairs donated.

As this second vendor might have said, there is a huge opportunity ici.Pas many companies give shoes.

Daniel H. Pink is a leading author and writes about the world of the most recent book travail.Son is disk: the surprising truth that motivates our topic (Canongate Books).

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