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.
BILL DRAYTONEvery 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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An entrepreneur is someone who brings a pattern change.
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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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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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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 first – the most obvious test of a true social entrepreneur – is are they possessed, really possessed by an idea.
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Organizations must shift away from repetitive-function hierarchies with rules and enforcement and walls.
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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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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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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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The most powerful force in the world is a big idea- if it is the hands of a great entrepreneur.
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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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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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Imagine a world where everyone is really a change maker.
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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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In an increasingly connected world it is less likely that a few people ‘manage’ everyone else.
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