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We need to teach empathy as we do literacy.

Bill Drayton

It’s the combination: big idea with a good entrepreneur: there’s nothing more powerful. That’s just as true [for] education and human rights as it is for hotel or steels.
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Business Education Good Powerful Rights
The most critical variable [to becoming a change-maker] is one’s willingness to give oneself permission.
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Becoming Giving Variables
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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Hands Ideas Powerful
The first – the most obvious test of a true social entrepreneur – is are they possessed, really possessed by an idea.
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Entrepreneur Ideas Tests
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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Organization Structural Successful Together Transformation Working
Imagine a world where everyone is really a change maker.
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Imagine Makers World
Organizations must shift away from repetitive-function hierarchies with rules and enforcement and walls.
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Organization Team Wall
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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Area Coming Industry Missing
An entrepreneur is someone who brings a pattern change.
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Change Entrepreneur Pattern
The most powerful force in the world is a big idea- if it is the hands of a great entrepreneur.
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Hands Ideas Powerful
In an increasingly connected world it is less likely that a few people ‘manage’ everyone else.
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Opportunity Organization Team
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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Becoming Change Combination Global Together Underway
To break the mental chains that make us small because everyone tells us we cannot.
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Break Chain Everyone Mental
The social entrepreneurs are governments’ best friends.
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Entrepreneur Government Social
We need to reverse three centuries of walling the for-profit and non-profit sectors off from one another.
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Opportunity Thinking Zero
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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Change Entrepreneur Exist Flexible Opportunities Requires

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