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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.

Bill Drayton

Imagine a world where everyone is really a change maker.
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Imagine Makers World
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
Everyone says youve got to do a foundation and legal structure to finance social change. What nonsense!
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Finance Foundation Nonsense
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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Big Idea Powerful Rights Thinking
In an increasingly connected world it is less likely that a few people ‘manage’ everyone else.
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Opportunity Organization Team
Public service and respect for ideas is a recurrent theme in both the American and Australian sides of my family.
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Ideas My Family Sides
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
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
We need to teach empathy as we do literacy.
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Empathy Literacy Needs
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
There is nothing more powerful than a new idea in the hands of a social entrepreneur
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Hands Ideas Nothing Powerful
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
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
Organizations must shift away from repetitive-function hierarchies with rules and enforcement and walls.
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Organization Team Wall
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
We need to reverse three centuries of walling the for-profit and non-profit sectors off from one another.
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Opportunity Thinking Zero

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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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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