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.
BILL DRAYTONThe 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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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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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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Organizations must shift away from repetitive-function hierarchies with rules and enforcement and walls.
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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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There is nothing more powerful than a new idea in the hands of a social entrepreneur
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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 critical variable [to becoming a change-maker] is one’s willingness to give oneself permission.
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If everyone is a changemaker, there’s no way a problem can outrun a solution
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Every child must master empathy-based ethics because the rules are changing; the less they apply the less learning them has positive impact
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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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We need to reverse three centuries of walling the for-profit and non-profit sectors off from one another.
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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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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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In an increasingly connected world it is less likely that a few people ‘manage’ everyone else.
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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 first – the most obvious test of a true social entrepreneur – is are they possessed, really possessed by an idea.
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Imagine a world where everyone is really a change maker.
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Social entrepreneurs are married to a vision of, for example, a better way of helping young people grow up or of delivering global healthcare. They simply will not stop because they cannot be happy until their vision becomes the new pattern.
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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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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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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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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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If Congress can determine what constitutes the general welfare and can appropriate money for its advancement, where is the limitation to carrying into execution whatever can be effected by money?.
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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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