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.
BILL DRAYTONWhat 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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Imagine a world where everyone is really a change maker.
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In an increasingly connected world it is less likely that a few people ‘manage’ everyone else.
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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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All the problems sitting there are an invitation for you to be creative, make use of your skills and resources and find a solution.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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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 first – the most obvious test of a true social entrepreneur – is are they possessed, really possessed by an idea.
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We started Ashoka here in India with a simple idea: that you needed social entrepreneurs to deal with problems that don’t fit the business paradigm.
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The social entrepreneurs are governments’ best friends.
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Organizations must shift away from repetitive-function hierarchies with rules and enforcement and walls.
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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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To break the mental chains that make us small because everyone tells us we cannot.
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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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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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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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