We need to teach empathy as we do literacy.
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.
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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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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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To break the mental chains that make us small because everyone tells us we cannot.
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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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The first – the most obvious test of a true social entrepreneur – is are they possessed, really possessed by an idea.
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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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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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The most powerful force in the world is a big idea- if it is the hands of a great entrepreneur.
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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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In an increasingly connected world it is less likely that a few people ‘manage’ everyone else.
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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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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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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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The social entrepreneurs are governments’ best friends.
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