The job of a social entrepreneur is to recognize when a part of society is stuck & to provide new ways to get it unstuck.
BILL DRAYTONWe 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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Imagine a world where everyone is really a change maker.
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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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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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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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If everyone is a changemaker, there’s no way a problem can outrun a solution
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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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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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We need to teach empathy as we do literacy.
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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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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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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 most powerful force in the world is a big idea- if it is the hands of a great entrepreneur.
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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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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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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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What is our job as entrepreneurs if not to change things that are crazy?
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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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The first – the most obvious test of a true social entrepreneur – is are they possessed, really possessed by an idea.
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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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The most critical variable [to becoming a change-maker] is one’s willingness to give oneself permission.
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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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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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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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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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