The social entrepreneurs are governments’ best friends.
BILL DRAYTONWhat is our job as entrepreneurs if not to change things that are crazy?
More Bill Drayton Quotes
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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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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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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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Organizations must shift away from repetitive-function hierarchies with rules and enforcement and walls.
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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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To break the mental chains that make us small because everyone tells us we cannot.
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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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There is nothing more powerful than a new idea in the hands of a social entrepreneur
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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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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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Public service and respect for ideas is a recurrent theme in both the American and Australian sides of my family.
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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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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 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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An entrepreneur is someone who brings a pattern change.
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