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.
BILL DRAYTONSocial 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 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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We need to reverse three centuries of walling the for-profit and non-profit sectors off from one another.
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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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Everyone says youve got to do a foundation and legal structure to finance social change. What nonsense!
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Organizations must shift away from repetitive-function hierarchies with rules and enforcement and walls.
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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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We need to teach empathy as we do literacy.
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There is nothing more powerful than a new idea in the hands of a social entrepreneur
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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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The first – the most obvious test of a true social entrepreneur – is are they possessed, really possessed by an idea.
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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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The one single factor that determines society’s success is the percentage of change-makers within it.
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Imagine a world where everyone is really a change maker.
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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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