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.
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.
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We need to teach empathy as we do literacy.
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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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We started Ashoka here in India with a simple idea: that you needed social entrepreneurs to deal with problems that don’t fit the business paradigm.
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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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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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What is the most powerful lever you can imagine? A big idea, but only if it’s in the hands of a truly outstanding entrepreneur. It starts with the person and the idea, and then grows to the institution. All three are intertwined.
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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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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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And we understand that in business but we have need for entrepreneurship just as much in education, human rights, health, and the environment as we do in hotels and steel.
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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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Imagine a world where everyone is really a change maker.
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The social entrepreneurs are governments’ best friends.
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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 most powerful force in the world is a big idea- if it is the hands of a great entrepreneur.
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There is nothing more powerful than a new idea in the hands of a social entrepreneur
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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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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 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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To break the mental chains that make us small because everyone tells us we cannot.
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Organizations must shift away from repetitive-function hierarchies with rules and enforcement and walls.
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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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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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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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Everyone says youve got to do a foundation and legal structure to finance social change. What nonsense!
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