The new environment requires a shift in the organization of both institutions and societies, one of flexible teams of teams that come together around whatever change opportunities exist and then reform around the next.
BILL DRAYTONThere is nothing more powerful than a new idea in the hands of a social entrepreneur
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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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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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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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If everyone is a changemaker, there’s no way a problem can outrun a solution
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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 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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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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To break the mental chains that make us small because everyone tells us we cannot.
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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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An entrepreneur is someone who brings a pattern change.
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There is nothing more powerful than a new idea in the hands of a social entrepreneur
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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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The one single factor that determines society’s success is the percentage of change-makers within it.
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The social entrepreneurs are governments’ best friends.
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