There is nothing more powerful than a new idea in the hands of a social entrepreneur
BILL DRAYTONInstead, 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.
More Bill Drayton Quotes
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In an increasingly connected world it is less likely that a few people ‘manage’ everyone else.
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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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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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An entrepreneur is someone who brings a pattern change.
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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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Public service and respect for ideas is a recurrent theme in both the American and Australian sides of my family.
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The job of a social entrepreneur is to recognize when a part of society is stuck & to provide new ways to get it unstuck.
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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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The one single factor that determines society’s success is the percentage of change-makers within it.
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Imagine a world where everyone is really a change maker.
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What is our job as entrepreneurs if not to change things that are crazy?
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We need to teach empathy as we do literacy.
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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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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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