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

Bill Drayton

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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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  When you think for-profit and non-profit, you most often think of entities with either zero social return or zero return on capital and zero social return.

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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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  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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  The first – the most obvious test of a true social entrepreneur – is are they possessed, really possessed by an idea.

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  An entrepreneur is someone who brings a pattern change.

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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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  Everyone says youve got to do a foundation and legal structure to finance social change. What nonsense!

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  To break the mental chains that make us small because everyone tells us we cannot.

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  What is our job as entrepreneurs if not to change things that are crazy?

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  In an increasingly connected world it is less likely that a few people ‘manage’ everyone else.

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

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  Social entrepreneurs are married to a vision of, for example, a better way of helping young people grow up or of delivering global healthcare. They simply will not stop because they cannot be happy until their vision becomes the new pattern.

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