Listening is understanding. The skill of empathy is a must to be able to listen…One can listen better if one sees the whole.
BILL DRAYTONClearly, there’s some opportunity in the spectrum between those extremes. What’s missing is the for-profit finance industry coming in to that area.
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Everyone says youve got to do a foundation and legal structure to finance social change. What nonsense!
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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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Social entrepreneurs are not content just to give a fish or teach how to fish. They will not rest until they have revolutionized the fishing industry.
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The social entrepreneurs are governments’ best friends.
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We need to teach empathy as we do literacy.
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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 first – the most obvious test of a true social entrepreneur – is are they possessed, really possessed by an idea.
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When you think for-profit and non-profit, you most often think of entities with either zero social return or zero return on capital and zero social return.
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The new environment requires a shift in the organization of both institutions and societies, one of flexible teams of teams that come together around whatever change opportunities exist and then reform around the next.
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Organizations must shift away from repetitive-function hierarchies with rules and enforcement and walls.
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An entrepreneur is someone who brings a pattern change.
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Look at the enormous diversity of the for-profit financial industry as opposed to monolithic nature of the non-profit world; it’s quite astonishing.
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Every successful organization has to make the transition from a world defined primarily by repetition to one primarily defined by change. This is the biggest transformation in the structure of how humans work together since the Agricultural Revolution.
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If Congress can determine what constitutes the general welfare and can appropriate money for its advancement, where is the limitation to carrying into execution whatever can be effected by money?.
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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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