There is nothing more powerful than a new idea in the hands of a social entrepreneur
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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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.
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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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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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If everyone is a changemaker, there’s no way a problem can outrun a solution
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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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The one single factor that determines society’s success is the percentage of change-makers within it.
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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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Clearly, 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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The most critical variable [to becoming a change-maker] is one’s willingness to give oneself permission.
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Organizations must shift away from repetitive-function hierarchies with rules and enforcement and walls.
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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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Public service and respect for ideas is a recurrent theme in both the American and Australian sides of my family.
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We need to reverse three centuries of walling the for-profit and non-profit sectors off from one another.
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There are millions of people who can get things done. There are very, very few people who will change the pattern in the whole field.
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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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