Anyone who cannot see problems around him or herself is utterly blind. All the problems sitting there are an invitation for you to be creative, make use of your skills and resources and find a solution.
BILL DRAYTONEvery 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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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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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 most critical variable [to becoming a change-maker] is one’s willingness to give oneself permission.
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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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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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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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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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We need to reverse three centuries of walling the for-profit and non-profit sectors off from one another.
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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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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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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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We need to teach empathy as we do literacy.
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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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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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Organizations must shift away from repetitive-function hierarchies with rules and enforcement and walls.
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