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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.

Bill Drayton

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
The first – the most obvious test of a true social entrepreneur – is are they possessed, really possessed by an idea.
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Entrepreneur Ideas Tests
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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Creative Creativity Resources Skills
An entrepreneur is someone who brings a pattern change.
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Change Entrepreneur Pattern
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
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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Either Most Profit Return Social Zero
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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Education Entrepreneurship Hotels Human Rights Steels
Imagine a world where everyone is really a change maker.
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Imagine Makers World
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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Anyone Problems Resources Skills Solutions
If everyone is a changemaker, there’s no way a problem can outrun a solution
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Problem Way
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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Becoming Change Combination Global Together Underway
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 most critical variable [to becoming a change-maker] is one’s willingness to give oneself permission.
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Becoming Giving Variables
In an increasingly connected world it is less likely that a few people ‘manage’ everyone else.
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Opportunity Organization Team
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
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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Organization Structural Successful Together Transformation Working

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