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 DRAYTONThe most powerful force in the world is a big idea- if it is the hands of a great entrepreneur.
More Bill Drayton Quotes
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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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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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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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What is our job as entrepreneurs if not to change things that are crazy?
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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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Imagine a world where everyone is really a change maker.
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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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The one single factor that determines society’s success is the percentage of change-makers within it.
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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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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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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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Clearly, there’s some opportunity in the spectrum between those extremes. What’s missing is the for-profit finance industry coming in to that area.
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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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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 most critical variable [to becoming a change-maker] is one’s willingness to give oneself permission.
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