We need to teach empathy as we do literacy.
BILL DRAYTONIn an increasingly connected world it is less likely that a few people ‘manage’ everyone else.
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To break the mental chains that make us small because everyone tells us we cannot.
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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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Everyone says youve got to do a foundation and legal structure to finance social change. What nonsense!
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In an increasingly connected world it is less likely that a few people ‘manage’ everyone else.
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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 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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If everyone is a changemaker, there’s no way a problem can outrun a solution
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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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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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The most powerful force in the world is a big idea- if it is the hands of a great entrepreneur.
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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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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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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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An entrepreneur is someone who brings a pattern change.
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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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