The biggest problem is getting beyond the “you can’t” syndrome. The moment you figure that out, you’re on your way to flying.
BILL DRAYTONImagine a world where everyone is really a change maker.
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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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The most critical variable [to becoming a change-maker] is one’s willingness to give oneself permission.
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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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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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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.
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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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The social entrepreneurs are governments’ best friends.
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To break the mental chains that make us small because everyone tells us we cannot.
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If everyone is a changemaker, there’s no way a problem can outrun a solution
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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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We need to teach empathy as we do literacy.
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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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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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An entrepreneur is someone who brings a pattern change.
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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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