The biggest problem is getting beyond the “you can’t” syndrome. The moment you figure that out, you’re on your way to flying.
BILL DRAYTONTo break the mental chains that make us small because everyone tells us we cannot.
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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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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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We need to reverse three centuries of walling the for-profit and non-profit sectors off from one another.
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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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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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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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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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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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What is our job as entrepreneurs if not to change things that are crazy?
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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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Everyone says youve got to do a foundation and legal structure to finance social change. What nonsense!
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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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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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