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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More Bill Drayton Quotes
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We started Ashoka here in India with a simple idea: that you needed social entrepreneurs to deal with problems that don’t fit the business paradigm.
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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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If everyone is a changemaker, there’s no way a problem can outrun a solution
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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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An entrepreneur is someone who brings a pattern change.
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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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We need to teach empathy as we do literacy.
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Organizations must shift away from repetitive-function hierarchies with rules and enforcement and walls.
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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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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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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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Imagine a world where everyone is really a change maker.
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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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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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The social entrepreneurs are governments’ best friends.
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