Organizations must shift away from repetitive-function hierarchies with rules and enforcement and walls.
BILL DRAYTONAn entrepreneur is someone who brings a pattern change.
More Bill Drayton Quotes
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We need to teach empathy as we do literacy.
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What is the most powerful force in the world? And I think you would agree that is a big idea if it is in the hands of an entrepreneur who is actually going to make the idea not only happen, but spread all across society.
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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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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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We need to reverse three centuries of walling the for-profit and non-profit sectors off from one another.
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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.
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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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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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Imagine a world where everyone is really a change maker.
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If everyone is a changemaker, there’s no way a problem can outrun a solution
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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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The social entrepreneurs are governments’ best friends.
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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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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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