Organizations must shift away from repetitive-function hierarchies with rules and enforcement and walls.
BILL DRAYTONWhat is the most powerful force in the world? And I think you would agree that is a big idea if it is in the hands of an entrepreneur who is actually going to make the idea not only happen, but spread all across society.
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What is the most powerful force in the world? And I think you would agree that is a big idea if it is in the hands of an entrepreneur who is actually going to make the idea not only happen, but spread all across society.
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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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The one single factor that determines society’s success is the percentage of change-makers within it.
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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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If everyone is a changemaker, there’s no way a problem can outrun a solution
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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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In an increasingly connected world it is less likely that a few people ‘manage’ everyone else.
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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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What is our job as entrepreneurs if not to change things that are crazy?
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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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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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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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To break the mental chains that make us small because everyone tells us we cannot.
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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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