We need to teach empathy as we do literacy.
BILL DRAYTONThere is nothing more powerful than a new idea in the hands of a social entrepreneur
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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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If everyone is a changemaker, there’s no way a problem can outrun a solution
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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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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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What is the most powerful lever you can imagine? A big idea, but only if it’s in the hands of a truly outstanding entrepreneur. It starts with the person and the idea, and then grows to the institution. All three are intertwined.
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What is our job as entrepreneurs if not to change things that are crazy?
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Organizations must shift away from repetitive-function hierarchies with rules and enforcement and walls.
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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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Listening is understanding. The skill of empathy is a must to be able to listen…One can listen better if one sees the whole.
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The most powerful force in the world is a big idea- if it is the hands of a great entrepreneur.
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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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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 one single factor that determines society’s success is the percentage of change-makers within it.
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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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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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