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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.

Bill Drayton

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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Growing Health Pattern People Up
Public service and respect for ideas is a recurrent theme in both the American and Australian sides of my family.
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Ideas My Family Sides
An entrepreneur is someone who brings a pattern change.
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Change Entrepreneur Pattern
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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Education Entrepreneurship Hotels Human Rights Steels
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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Either Most Profit Return Social Zero
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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Creative Flying Skills Syndrome
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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Hands Ideas Powerful
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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Entrepreneur Jobs Way
The first – the most obvious test of a true social entrepreneur – is are they possessed, really possessed by an idea.
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Entrepreneur Ideas Tests
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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Anyone Problems Resources Skills Solutions
Organizations must shift away from repetitive-function hierarchies with rules and enforcement and walls.
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Organization Team Wall
The most powerful force in the world is a big idea- if it is the hands of a great entrepreneur.
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Hands Ideas Powerful
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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Big Idea Powerful Rights Thinking
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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Business Entrepreneur Ideas Paradigm Simple
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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Allies Community Entrepreneur Reading Social
Imagine a world where everyone is really a change maker.
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Imagine Makers World

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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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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