What is our job as entrepreneurs if not to change things that are crazy?
BILL DRAYTONThe social entrepreneurs are governments’ best friends.
More Bill Drayton Quotes
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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 first – the most obvious test of a true social entrepreneur – is are they possessed, really possessed by an idea.
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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 most critical variable [to becoming a change-maker] is one’s willingness to give oneself permission.
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An entrepreneur is someone who brings a pattern change.
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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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Organizations must shift away from repetitive-function hierarchies with rules and enforcement and walls.
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Imagine a world where everyone is really a change maker.
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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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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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There is nothing more powerful than a new idea in the hands of a social entrepreneur
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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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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 social entrepreneurs are governments’ best friends.
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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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