The job of a social entrepreneur is to recognize when a part of society is stuck & to provide new ways to get it unstuck.
BILL DRAYTONSocial 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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If everyone is a changemaker, there’s no way a problem can outrun a solution
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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 most powerful force in the world is a big idea- if it is the hands of a great entrepreneur.
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Imagine a world where everyone is really a change maker.
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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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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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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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What is our job as entrepreneurs if not to change things that are crazy?
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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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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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The social entrepreneurs are governments’ best friends.
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In an increasingly connected world it is less likely that a few people ‘manage’ everyone else.
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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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Everyone says youve got to do a foundation and legal structure to finance social change. What nonsense!
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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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