Instead, we must migrate rapidly to becoming a global ‘team of teams’ that comes together in whatever combination necessary to add the greatest value to the changes underway.
BILL DRAYTONListening is understanding. The skill of empathy is a must to be able to listen…One can listen better if one sees the whole.
More Bill Drayton Quotes
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Good entrepreneurs can manage, but no one but an entrepreneur can entrepreneur, let alone help build and lead the world’s community of leading social entrepreneurs and their top business entrepreneur allies.
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The most critical variable [to becoming a change-maker] is one’s willingness to give oneself permission.
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The social entrepreneurs are governments’ best friends.
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Imagine a world where everyone is really a change maker.
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What is the most powerful force in the world? And I think you would agree that is a big idea if it is in the hands of an entrepreneur who is actually going to make the idea not only happen, but spread all across society.
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The biggest problem is getting beyond the “you can’t” syndrome. The moment you figure that out, you’re on your way to flying.
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We need to teach empathy as we do literacy.
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In an increasingly connected world it is less likely that a few people ‘manage’ everyone else.
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There is nothing more powerful than a new idea in the hands of a social entrepreneur
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Anyone who cannot see problems around him or herself is utterly blind. All the problems sitting there are an invitation for you to be creative, make use of your skills and resources and find a solution.
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The one single factor that determines society’s success is the percentage of change-makers within it.
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Organizations must shift away from repetitive-function hierarchies with rules and enforcement and walls.
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And we understand that in business but we have need for entrepreneurship just as much in education, human rights, health, and the environment as we do in hotels and steel.
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Every child must master empathy-based ethics because the rules are changing; the less they apply the less learning them has positive impact
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Public service and respect for ideas is a recurrent theme in both the American and Australian sides of my family.
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