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.
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 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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There is nothing more powerful than a new idea in the hands of a social entrepreneur
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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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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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The first – the most obvious test of a true social entrepreneur – is are they possessed, really possessed by an idea.
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We need to teach empathy as we do literacy.
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If everyone is a changemaker, there’s no way a problem can outrun a solution
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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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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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We need to reverse three centuries of walling the for-profit and non-profit sectors off from one another.
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What is our job as entrepreneurs if not to change things that are crazy?
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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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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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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 social entrepreneurs are governments’ best friends.
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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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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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Everyone says youve got to do a foundation and legal structure to finance social change. What nonsense!
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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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Organizations must shift away from repetitive-function hierarchies with rules and enforcement and walls.
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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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The most critical variable [to becoming a change-maker] is one’s willingness to give oneself permission.
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Imagine 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 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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The most powerful force in the world is a big idea- if it is the hands of a great entrepreneur.
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