The job of a social entrepreneur is to recognize when a part of society is stuck & to provide new ways to get it unstuck.
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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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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Public service and respect for ideas is a recurrent theme in both the American and Australian sides of my family.
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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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If everyone is a changemaker, there’s no way a problem can outrun a solution
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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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To break the mental chains that make us small because everyone tells us we cannot.
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The social entrepreneurs are governments’ best friends.
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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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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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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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And we understand that in business but we have need for entrepreneurship just as much in education, human rights, health, and the environment as we do in hotels and steel.
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What is our job as entrepreneurs if not to change things that are crazy?
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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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