Imagine a world where everyone is really a change maker.
BILL DRAYTONIf everyone is a changemaker, there’s no way a problem can outrun a solution
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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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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 most powerful force in the world is a big idea- if it is the hands of a great entrepreneur.
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Organizations must shift away from repetitive-function hierarchies with rules and enforcement and walls.
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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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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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In an increasingly connected world it is less likely that a few people ‘manage’ everyone else.
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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 is nothing more powerful than a new idea in the hands of a social entrepreneur
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If everyone is a changemaker, there’s no way a problem can outrun a solution
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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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To break the mental chains that make us small because everyone tells us we cannot.
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The social entrepreneurs are governments’ best friends.
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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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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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