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Organizations must shift away from repetitive-function hierarchies with rules and enforcement and walls.

Bill Drayton

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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Creative Creativity Resources Skills
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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Becoming Change Combination Global Together Underway
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
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 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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Change Entrepreneur Exist Flexible Opportunities Requires
In an increasingly connected world it is less likely that a few people ‘manage’ everyone else.
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Opportunity Organization Team
An entrepreneur is someone who brings a pattern change.
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Change Entrepreneur Pattern
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 most critical variable [to becoming a change-maker] is one’s willingness to give oneself permission.
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Becoming Giving Variables
What is our job as entrepreneurs if not to change things that are crazy?
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Crazy Entrepreneur Jobs
Imagine a world where everyone is really a change maker.
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Imagine Makers World
There are millions of people who can get things done. There are very, very few people who will change the pattern in the whole field.
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Done Pattern People
To break the mental chains that make us small because everyone tells us we cannot.
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Break Chain Everyone Mental
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
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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Empathy Skills Understanding
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

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