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.
BILL DRAYTONWe need to teach empathy as we do literacy.
More Bill Drayton Quotes
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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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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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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.
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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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What is our job as entrepreneurs if not to change things that are crazy?
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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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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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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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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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There is nothing more powerful than a new idea in the hands of a social 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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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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If everyone is a changemaker, there’s no way a problem can outrun a solution
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We need to teach empathy as we do literacy.
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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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