Every child must master empathy-based ethics because the rules are changing; the less they apply the less learning them has positive impact
BILL DRAYTONWe need to teach empathy as we do literacy.
More Bill Drayton Quotes
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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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Organizations must shift away from repetitive-function hierarchies with rules and enforcement and walls.
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Imagine a world where everyone is really a change maker.
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An entrepreneur is someone who brings a pattern change.
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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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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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We need to reverse three centuries of walling the for-profit and non-profit sectors off from one another.
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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 social entrepreneurs are governments’ best friends.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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