When you think for-profit and non-profit, you most often think of entities with either zero social return or zero return on capital and zero social return.
BILL DRAYTONAnd 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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We need to teach empathy as we do literacy.
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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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What is our job as entrepreneurs if not to change things that are crazy?
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We started Ashoka here in India with a simple idea: that you needed social entrepreneurs to deal with problems that don’t fit the business paradigm.
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To break the mental chains that make us small because everyone tells us we cannot.
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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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We need to reverse three centuries of walling the for-profit and non-profit sectors off from one another.
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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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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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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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In an increasingly connected world it is less likely that a few people ‘manage’ everyone else.
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Everyone says youve got to do a foundation and legal structure to finance social change. What nonsense!
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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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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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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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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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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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If everyone is a changemaker, there’s no way a problem can outrun a solution
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Organizations must shift away from repetitive-function hierarchies with rules and enforcement and walls.
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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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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.
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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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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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Public service and respect for ideas is a recurrent theme in both the American and Australian sides of my family.
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