• “Innovators are the dreamers: They create the prototypes, work out the kinks -- and then get bored, anxious to return to what they do best, which is inventing more prototypes. They are rarely concerned, ultimately, with the financial viability of what they do.”

• “Entrepreneurs are the builders: They turn prototypes into going concerns -- then they get bored. For them, financial viability is the single most important aspect of what they do.”

• “Professional managers are the trustees: They secure the future by installing and overseeing the systems and infrastructure needed to make sure the going concern keeps going. Unfortunately, in the nonprofit sector, often because resources are scarce, organizations try to shoehorn people into positions where they don’t fit, and many of the problems nonprofits have when they begin adopting entrepreneurial strategies arise. “

Boschee & McClurg “Toward a better understanding of social entrepreneurship: Some important distinctions “