In an increasingly connected world it is less likely that a few people ‘manage’ everyone else.
BILL DRAYTONOrganizations must shift away from repetitive-function hierarchies with rules and enforcement and walls.
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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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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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Everyone says youve got to do a foundation and legal structure to finance social change. What nonsense!
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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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The most powerful force in the world is a big idea- if it is the hands of a great entrepreneur.
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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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We need to reverse three centuries of walling the for-profit and non-profit sectors off from one another.
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To break the mental chains that make us small because everyone tells us we cannot.
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An entrepreneur is someone who brings a pattern change.
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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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Organizations must shift away from repetitive-function hierarchies with rules and enforcement and walls.
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If Congress can determine what constitutes the general welfare and can appropriate money for its advancement, where is the limitation to carrying into execution whatever can be effected by money?.
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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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There is nothing more powerful than a new idea in the hands of a social entrepreneur
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