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.
BILL DRAYTONWhat 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.
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.
BILL DRAYTONEveryone says youve got to do a foundation and legal structure to finance social change. What nonsense!
BILL DRAYTONThe social entrepreneurs are governments’ best friends.
BILL DRAYTONLook 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 DRAYTONThe job of a social entrepreneur is to recognize when a part of society is stuck & to provide new ways to get it unstuck.
BILL DRAYTONAll 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 DRAYTONAn entrepreneur is someone who brings a pattern change.
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.
BILL DRAYTONAnd 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.
BILL DRAYTONThere is nothing more powerful than a new idea in the hands of a social entrepreneur
BILL DRAYTONSocial 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.
BILL DRAYTONOrganizations must shift away from repetitive-function hierarchies with rules and enforcement and walls.
BILL DRAYTONIf 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?.
BILL DRAYTONGood 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.
BILL DRAYTONImagine a world where everyone is really a change maker.
BILL DRAYTON