The most critical variable [to becoming a change-maker] is one’s willingness to give oneself permission.
BILL DRAYTONEvery 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.
More Bill Drayton Quotes
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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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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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We need to teach empathy as we do literacy.
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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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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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We need to reverse three centuries of walling the for-profit and non-profit sectors off from one another.
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There is nothing more powerful than a new idea in the hands of a social entrepreneur
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What is our job as entrepreneurs if not to change things that are crazy?
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Imagine a world where everyone is really a change maker.
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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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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 biggest problem is getting beyond the “you can’t” syndrome. The moment you figure that out, you’re on your way to flying.
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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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The most powerful force in the world is a big idea- if it is the hands of a great entrepreneur.
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