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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Public service and respect for ideas is a recurrent theme in both the American and Australian sides of my family.
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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.
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To break the mental chains that make us small because everyone tells us we cannot.
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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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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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The one single factor that determines society’s success is the percentage of change-makers within it.
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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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Anyone who cannot see problems around him or herself is utterly blind. All the problems sitting there are an invitation for you to be creative, make use of your skills and resources and find a solution.
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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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Organizations must shift away from repetitive-function hierarchies with rules and enforcement and walls.
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We need to teach empathy as we do literacy.
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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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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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Imagine a world where everyone is really a change maker.
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What is our job as entrepreneurs if not to change things that are crazy?
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