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In an increasingly connected world it is less likely that a few people ‘manage’ everyone else.

Bill Drayton

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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Done Pattern People
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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Growing Health Pattern People Up
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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Children Empathy Impact
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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Change Entrepreneur Exist Flexible Opportunities Requires
The most powerful force in the world is a big idea- if it is the hands of a great entrepreneur.
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Hands Ideas Powerful
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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Enormous Financial Look Monolithic Profit
We need to teach empathy as we do literacy.
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Empathy Literacy Needs
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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Creative Flying Skills Syndrome
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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Diving Fishing Teacher
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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Area Coming Industry Missing
There is nothing more powerful than a new idea in the hands of a social entrepreneur
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Hands Ideas Nothing Powerful
In an increasingly connected world it is less likely that a few people ‘manage’ everyone else.
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Opportunity Organization Team
Everyone says youve got to do a foundation and legal structure to finance social change. What nonsense!
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Finance Foundation Nonsense
To break the mental chains that make us small because everyone tells us we cannot.
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Break Chain Everyone Mental
If everyone is a changemaker, there’s no way a problem can outrun a solution
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Problem Way
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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Hands Ideas Powerful

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