Public service and respect for ideas is a recurrent theme in both the American and Australian sides of my family.
BILL DRAYTONGood 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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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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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 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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To break the mental chains that make us small because everyone tells us we cannot.
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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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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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An entrepreneur is someone who brings a pattern change.
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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.
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Organizations must shift away from repetitive-function hierarchies with rules and enforcement and walls.
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Imagine a world where everyone is really a change maker.
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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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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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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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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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