If everyone is a changemaker, there’s no way a problem can outrun a solution
BILL DRAYTONWe need to teach empathy as we do literacy.
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Organizations must shift away from repetitive-function hierarchies with rules and enforcement and walls.
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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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We need to reverse three centuries of walling the for-profit and non-profit sectors off from one another.
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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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The most powerful force in the world is a big idea- if it is the hands of a great entrepreneur.
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In an increasingly connected world it is less likely that a few people ‘manage’ everyone else.
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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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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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Everyone says youve got to do a foundation and legal structure to finance social change. What nonsense!
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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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We need to teach empathy as we do literacy.
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Imagine a world where everyone is really a change maker.
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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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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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