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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

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
Imagine a world where everyone is really a change maker.
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Imagine Makers World
In an increasingly connected world it is less likely that a few people ‘manage’ everyone else.
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Opportunity Organization Team
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 social entrepreneurs are governments’ best friends.
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Entrepreneur Government Social
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
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
There is nothing more powerful than a new idea in the hands of a social entrepreneur
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Hands Ideas Nothing Powerful
Organizations must shift away from repetitive-function hierarchies with rules and enforcement and walls.
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Organization Team Wall
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
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
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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Business Entrepreneur Ideas Paradigm Simple
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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Empathy Skills Understanding
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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Allies Community Entrepreneur Reading Social
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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Business Education Good Powerful Rights
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

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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