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?.
BILL DRAYTONTo 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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We need to reverse three centuries of walling the for-profit and non-profit sectors off from one another.
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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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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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To break the mental chains that make us small because everyone tells us we cannot.
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Good entrepreneurs can manage, but no one but an entrepreneur can entrepreneur, let alone help build and lead the world’s community of leading social entrepreneurs and their top business entrepreneur allies.
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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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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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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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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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Organizations must shift away from repetitive-function hierarchies with rules and enforcement and walls.
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If everyone is a changemaker, there’s no way a problem can outrun a solution
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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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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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