The most powerful force in the world is a big idea- if it is the hands of a great entrepreneur.
BILL DRAYTONThe 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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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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To break the mental chains that make us small because everyone tells us we cannot.
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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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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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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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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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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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The most critical variable [to becoming a change-maker] is one’s willingness to give oneself permission.
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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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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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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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Everyone says youve got to do a foundation and legal structure to finance social change. What nonsense!
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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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An entrepreneur is someone who brings a pattern change.
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