We Don’t Need Permission: How Black Business Can Change Our World

We Don’t Need Permission: How Black Business Can Change Our World by Eric Collins is 10 step guide “to get the right amounts of money in the right hands to make change permanent”. Visit: https://www.amazon.co.uk/We-Dont-Need-Permission-business/dp/1787635392

Step 1: Embrace the unexpected
Step 2: Engage in consistent and continuous acts of disruption
Step 3: Let go of small – think bigger, think global and prepare for pitfalls
Step 4: Take risks using data to mitigate the downside
Step 5: Put your money where your mouth is, make your resources matter
Step 6: Leverage what you know
Step 7: Become a convener by making your mission bigger than yourself
Step 8: Invest in women to create Alpha
Step 9: Sell your vision, make time-appropriate asks and don’t forget to recruit allies
Step 10: Always bet on Black

In the UK, half of Black households live in persistent poverty—double the rate of their white counterparts. “We Don’t Need Permission” argues that investing in Black and under-represented entrepreneurs is the fastest way to drive socio-economic change.

Economic empowerment is key. It improves education, health outcomes, and more. This approach tackles systemic racism and sexism head-on. It also closes the inequality gaps that have held back Black people and women for too long. To address this, Eric Collins co-founded Impact X Capital. This venture capital firm invests in under-represented entrepreneurs across the UK and Europe.

In “We Don’t Need Permission,” Collins shares ten principles for successful entrepreneurship. He shows how to transform a system that has helped some while holding others back. The book inspires under-represented people to take control of their economic futures. It also challenges current business leaders to do better.

Now is the time to stop waiting for permission. Start creating the world you want to see.