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.
BILL DRAYTONWhat is our job as entrepreneurs if not to change things that are crazy?
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Imagine a world where everyone is really a change maker.
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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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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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We need to teach empathy as we do literacy.
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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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We need to reverse three centuries of walling the for-profit and non-profit sectors off from one another.
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What is our job as entrepreneurs if not to change things that are crazy?
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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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The job of a social entrepreneur is to recognize when a part of society is stuck & to provide new ways to get it unstuck.
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It’s the combination: big idea with a good entrepreneur: there’s nothing more powerful. That’s just as true [for] education and human rights as it is for hotel or steels.
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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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Organizations must shift away from repetitive-function hierarchies with rules and enforcement and walls.
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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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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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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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