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If everyone is a changemaker, there’s no way a problem can outrun a solution

Bill Drayton

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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Creative Creativity Resources Skills
An entrepreneur is someone who brings a pattern change.
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Change Entrepreneur Pattern
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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Creative Flying Skills Syndrome
We need to reverse three centuries of walling the for-profit and non-profit sectors off from one another.
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Opportunity Thinking Zero
In an increasingly connected world it is less likely that a few people ‘manage’ everyone else.
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Opportunity Organization Team
The most critical variable [to becoming a change-maker] is one’s willingness to give oneself permission.
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Becoming Giving Variables
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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Entrepreneur Jobs Way
We need to teach empathy as we do literacy.
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Empathy Literacy Needs
The one single factor that determines society’s success is the percentage of change-makers within it.
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Determine Makers Percentages
There is nothing more powerful than a new idea in the hands of a social entrepreneur
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Hands Ideas Nothing Powerful
Organizations must shift away from repetitive-function hierarchies with rules and enforcement and walls.
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Organization Team Wall
Imagine a world where everyone is really a change maker.
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Imagine Makers World
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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Business Entrepreneur Ideas Paradigm Simple
If everyone is a changemaker, there’s no way a problem can outrun a solution
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Problem Way
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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Business Education Good Powerful Rights
To break the mental chains that make us small because everyone tells us we cannot.
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Break Chain Everyone Mental

If everyone is a changemaker, there’s no way a problem can outrun a solution

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