What is the most powerful lever you can imagine? A big idea, but only if it’s in the hands of a truly outstanding entrepreneur. It starts with the person and the idea, and then grows to the institution. All three are intertwined.
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There is nothing more powerful than a new idea in the hands of a social entrepreneur
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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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Imagine a world where everyone is really a change maker.
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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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Organizations must shift away from repetitive-function hierarchies with rules and enforcement and walls.
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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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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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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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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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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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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 social entrepreneurs are governments’ best friends.
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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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