There is nothing more powerful than a new idea in the hands of a social entrepreneur
BILL DRAYTONIf everyone is a changemaker, there’s no way a problem can outrun a solution
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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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Imagine a world where everyone is really a change maker.
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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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We need to reverse three centuries of walling the for-profit and non-profit sectors off from one another.
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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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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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In an increasingly connected world it is less likely that a few people ‘manage’ everyone else.
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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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Every successful organization has to make the transition from a world defined primarily by repetition to one primarily defined by change. This is the biggest transformation in the structure of how humans work together since the Agricultural Revolution.
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To break the mental chains that make us small because everyone tells us we cannot.
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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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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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If everyone is a changemaker, there’s no way a problem can outrun a solution
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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 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 Congress can determine what constitutes the general welfare and can appropriate money for its advancement, where is the limitation to carrying into execution whatever can be effected by money?.
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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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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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The most critical variable [to becoming a change-maker] is one’s willingness to give oneself permission.
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Organizations must shift away from repetitive-function hierarchies with rules and enforcement and walls.
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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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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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Every child must master empathy-based ethics because the rules are changing; the less they apply the less learning them has positive impact
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What is our job as entrepreneurs if not to change things that are crazy?
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An entrepreneur is someone who brings a pattern change.
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