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

Bill Drayton

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
We need to teach empathy as we do literacy.
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Empathy Literacy Needs
We need to reverse three centuries of walling the for-profit and non-profit sectors off from one another.
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Opportunity Thinking Zero
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
What is our job as entrepreneurs if not to change things that are crazy?
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Crazy Entrepreneur Jobs
To break the mental chains that make us small because everyone tells us we cannot.
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Break Chain Everyone Mental
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
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
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
The most critical variable [to becoming a change-maker] is one’s willingness to give oneself permission.
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Becoming Giving Variables
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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Area Coming Industry Missing
Organizations must shift away from repetitive-function hierarchies with rules and enforcement and walls.
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Organization Team Wall
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 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
An entrepreneur is someone who brings a pattern change.
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Change Entrepreneur Pattern
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

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