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.
BILL DRAYTONThe social entrepreneurs are governments’ best friends.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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An entrepreneur is someone who brings a pattern change.
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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 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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What is our job as entrepreneurs if not to change things that are crazy?
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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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In an increasingly connected world it is less likely that a few people ‘manage’ everyone else.
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We need to teach empathy as we do literacy.
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To break the mental chains that make us small because everyone tells us we cannot.
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