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.
BILL DRAYTONInstead, 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.
More Bill Drayton Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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What is our job as entrepreneurs if not to change things that are crazy?
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Organizations must shift away from repetitive-function hierarchies with rules and enforcement and walls.
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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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We need to teach empathy as we do literacy.
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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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An entrepreneur is someone who brings a pattern change.
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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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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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When you think for-profit and non-profit, you most often think of entities with either zero social return or zero return on capital and zero social return.
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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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