There is nothing more powerful than a new idea in the hands of a social entrepreneur
BILL DRAYTONWe need to teach empathy as we do literacy.
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Social entrepreneurs are married to a vision of, for example, a better way of helping young people grow up or of delivering global healthcare. They simply will not stop because they cannot be happy until their vision becomes the new pattern.
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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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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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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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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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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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To break the mental chains that make us small because everyone tells us we cannot.
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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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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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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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Everyone says youve got to do a foundation and legal structure to finance social change. What nonsense!
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If everyone is a changemaker, there’s no way a problem can outrun a solution
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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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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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