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.
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.
More Bill Drayton Quotes
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If everyone is a changemaker, there’s no way a problem can outrun a solution
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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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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 first – the most obvious test of a true social entrepreneur – is are they possessed, really possessed by an idea.
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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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We need to reverse three centuries of walling the for-profit and non-profit sectors off from one another.
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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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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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In an increasingly connected world it is less likely that a few people ‘manage’ everyone else.
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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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Imagine a world where everyone is really a change maker.
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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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What is our job as entrepreneurs if not to change things that are crazy?
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To break the mental chains that make us small because everyone tells us we cannot.
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