An entrepreneur is someone who brings a pattern change.
BILL DRAYTONAn entrepreneur is someone who brings a pattern change.
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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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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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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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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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What is our job as entrepreneurs if not to change things that are crazy?
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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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The most critical variable [to becoming a change-maker] is one’s willingness to give oneself permission.
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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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To break the mental chains that make us small because everyone tells us we cannot.
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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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The first – the most obvious test of a true social entrepreneur – is are they possessed, really possessed by an idea.
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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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If Congress can determine what constitutes the general welfare and can appropriate money for its advancement, where is the limitation to carrying into execution whatever can be effected by money?.
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Organizations must shift away from repetitive-function hierarchies with rules and enforcement and walls.
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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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