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.
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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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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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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In an increasingly connected world it is less likely that a few people ‘manage’ everyone else.
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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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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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An entrepreneur is someone who brings a pattern change.
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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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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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The job of a social entrepreneur is to recognize when a part of society is stuck & to provide new ways to get it unstuck.
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Imagine a world where everyone is really a change maker.
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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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To break the mental chains that make us small because everyone tells us we cannot.
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There is nothing more powerful than a new idea in the hands of a social entrepreneur
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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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