What is our job as entrepreneurs if not to change things that are crazy?
BILL DRAYTONThe social entrepreneurs are governments’ best friends.
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An entrepreneur is someone who brings a pattern change.
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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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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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Organizations must shift away from repetitive-function hierarchies with rules and enforcement and walls.
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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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The first – the most obvious test of a true social entrepreneur – is are they possessed, really possessed by an idea.
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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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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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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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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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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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The one single factor that determines society’s success is the percentage of change-makers within it.
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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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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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